And as always when someone posts this - we are at Spring 4 now, update your funny bookmarks. Here you go: http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/4.1.6.RELEASE/javad

And as always when someone posts this - we are at Spring 4 now, update your funny bookmarks. Here you go: http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/4.1.6.RELEASE/javadoc-api/org/springframework/aop/framework/AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean.html http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/4.1.6.RELEASE/javadoc-api/... http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/4.1.6.RELEASE/javadoc-api/org/springframework/aop/aspectj/annotation/SingletonMetadataAwareAspectInstanceFactory.html http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/4.1.6.RELEASE/javadoc-api/... These are framework classes that you will never have to see or use when building a Spring application. Spring is surely not perfect, most people don't have the slightest clue what a modern Spring Application (read into Spring Boot) looks like.