Spring framework best practices: deploying a non-bean compliant component

Question

I want to build an MVC app using Spring (first timer here).

As such I want to embed Jetty as the servlet engine. Jetty however doesn't stricly follow the java beans pattern, so I can't launch some classes from Spring (they use overloaded setters or non setter init methods like addXYZ).

What is the accepted/recommended practice for structuring this project? Obviously all my code fits nicely in the MVC model, but for Jetty:

• Do I encapsulate all of Jetty (or any other non-bean friendly component) in my own Spring-friendly bean?
• Do I try to instantiate as much of it as possible in spring and just extend classes that aren't bean con-formant to make them act like proper beans?
• Is there another option?

Answer 1

Generally speaking, I'm for the 2nd point - i.e. try to use spring utilities like factory-method, init-method, <constructor-arg> and things like that to overcome the fact that something is not entirely spring-friendly. It is rarely the case that it's impossible to configure beans with spring. And for the cases when it is impossible, create wrappers

You can also instantiate the 3rd party beans programatically:

• via a FactoryBean
• via JavaConfig