A factory bean that produces a populated flow registry using a XmlFlowRegistrar . This is the simplest implementation to use when using a Spring BeanFactory to deploy an explicit registry of XML-based Flow definitions for execution.

By default, a configured flow definition will be assigned a registry identifier equal to the filename of the underlying definition resource, minus the filename extension. For example, a XML-based flow definition defined in the file flow1.xml will be identified as flow1 in the registry created by this factory bean.

This class is also BeanFactoryAware and when used with Spring will automatically create a configured DefaultFlowServiceLocator for loading Flow artifacts like Actions from the Spring bean factory during the Flow registration process.

This class is also ResourceLoaderAware; when an instance is created by a Spring BeanFactory the factory will automatically configure the XmlFlowRegistrar with a context-relative resource loader for accessing other resources during Flow assembly. Usage example:

     <bean id="flowRegistry" class="org.springframework.webflow.registry.XmlFlowRegistryFactoryBean">
         <property name="flowLocations"> value="/WEB-INF/flows/*-flow.xml"/> 
     </bean>