<?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:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"

    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

    <bean id="address" class="com.spring.relation.Address">

        <property name="city" value="beijing^"></property>

        <property name="location" value="los angles"></property>

    </bean>

    <bean id="address2" parent="address">

        <property name="location" value="new York"></property>

    </bean>

</beans>

package com.spring.autowire;

public class Address {

    private String city;

    private String location;

    public String getCity() {

        return city;

    }

    public void setCity(String city) {

        this.city = city;

    }

    public String getLocation() {

        return location;

    }

    public void setLocation(String location) {

        this.location = location;

    }

    @Override

    public String toString() {

        return "Address [city=" + city + ", location=" + location + "]";

    }

}

package com.spring.relation;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;

import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("bean-relation.xml");

        Address address = (Address)ctx.getBean("address");

        System.out.println(address);

        Address address2 = (Address)ctx.getBean("address2");

        System.out.println(address2);

    }

}

    <bean id="address" class="com.spring.relation.Address" abstract="true">

        <property name="city" value="beijing^"></property>

        <property name="location" value="los angles"></property>

    </bean>

    <bean id="address2" parent="address">

        <property name="location" value="new York"></property>

    </bean>