Zest™ supports that Spring Application Context is imported into the Zest™ runtime, and the declared Spring beans will be available as Zest™ services. The most important things to remember are;

new SpringImporterAssembler( appContext ).assemble( module );

It is also possible to run a Zest™ Application as a Spring Bean and export its Services to Spring.

Steps to export Zest™ service:

To bootstrap the Zest™ runtime in Spring, you should have a bootstrap bean that extends the org.qi4j.library.spring.bootstrap.Qi4jApplicationBootstrap and implement the org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware.

A new bean will appear in the application context, called "qi4jApplication" which is only intended for internal use of this library.

Example application context;

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:qi4j="http://www.qi4j.org/schema/qi4j/spring"
  xsi:schemaLocation="
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
  http://www.qi4j.org/schema/qi4j/spring http://www.qi4j.org/schema/qi4j/spring/spring-0.5.xsd">

  <!-- class that implements Qi4jApplicationBootstrap -->

  <qi4j:bootstrap class="org.hedhman.niclas.MyZestBootstrapper"/>

  <bean id="someService" class="org.hedhman.niclas.SomeService">

  <constructor-arg ref="someService"/> <!-- Reference qi4j comment service -->

 </bean>

public class MyZestBootstrapper extends Qi4jApplicationBootstrap
        implements ApplicationContextAware
{
    private ApplicationContext applicationContext;

    @Override
    public void assemble(ApplicationAssembly assembly) throws AssemblyException
    {
        // Normal assembly of an application.
          [...snip...]

    }

    @Override
    public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext) throws BeansException
    {
        this.applicationContext = applicationContext;
    }

}