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Annotation-based dispatch for Spring ApplicationEvents

I created a little extension that allows you to dispatch Spring application context events in a clean and type-safe way to POJO beans. Instead of implementing the ApplicationListener interface, one can simply create a handler as follows:

public class EventListener {
    @EventHandler
    public void onAppEvent(MyCustomEvent event) {
        // ...
    }
}

The code is available as a zipped up Maven project or via Git:

git clone http://pavel.tcholakov.net/code/eventhandler-annotation.git/

Related Spring forum thread.