<?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:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.0.xsd"> <!-- the most powerful way --> <bean id="yamlConstructor" class="examples.CustomConstructor" scope="prototype" /> <bean id="yamlRepresenter" class="org.yaml.snakeyaml.representer.Representer" scope="prototype" /> <bean id="yamlOptions" class="org.yaml.snakeyaml.DumperOptions" scope="prototype"> <property name="indent" value="2" /> </bean> <bean id="snakeYaml" class="org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml" scope="prototype"> <constructor-arg ref="yamlConstructor" /> <constructor-arg ref="yamlRepresenter" /> <constructor-arg ref="yamlOptions" /> </bean> <!-- for a single JavaBean --> <bean id="beanConstructor" class="org.yaml.snakeyaml.constructor.Constructor" scope="prototype"> <constructor-arg value="org.yaml.snakeyaml.Invoice" /> </bean> <bean id="javabeanYaml" class="org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml" scope="prototype"> <constructor-arg ref="beanConstructor" /> </bean> <!-- the simplest way --> <bean id="standardYaml" class="org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml" scope="prototype" /> </beans>