In order to "bootstrap" yourself into the world of content beans from the CoreMedia Unified API, you need to use the content bean factory programmatically, for example from within a Controller. The factory API is simple, the most relevant method is ContentBeanFactory#createBeanFor(Content). For example:
Content content = ... // for example through a query Article article = (Article)contentBeanFactory.createBeanFor(content);
The controller needs access to the content bean factory. Since the controller itself typically is a bean defined in the application context, you can inject the factory reference into the controller object:
<bean id="myController" class="..."> <property name="contentBeanFactory" ref="contentBeanFactory"/> ... </bean>
This fragment will invoke
#setContentBeanFactory
on the controller supplying
an instance of the referenced factory.
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