what is the use of BeanFactoryLocator container like, references, directly, instead, either

amy

Hi,    I have a doubt in the use of BeanFactoryLocator container. I know we use either BeanFactory or ApplicationContext conatiners to lookup the beans.
in our application instead we've used BeanFactoryLocator to load the file(beanRefFactory.xml) which in turn has references to context files which are loaded as BeanFactories. But i dont undertand why they had done like this,instead we could have used ClassPathXmlApplicationContext directly and cached it.

read the api doc on BeanFactoryLocator, I think it will provide sufficient answers to your questions.

i read the doc , still i'm not clear. i wanna here it from who used it in their work.

guys can you help me to understand this