A unique identifier for the bean. This can also be a list of identifiers. See documentation for attribute name in attribute group beanAttributes in http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd Specifies if the bean is an abstract bean. Abstract beans act as parents for concrete bean definitions and are not instantiated. The default is "false". Setting this to "true" instructs the bean factory not to instantiate the bean. See documentation for attribute abstract in attribute group beanAttributes in http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd A list of beans that the bean depends on being instantiated before it can be instantiated. See documentation for attribute depends-on in attribute group beanAttributes in http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd Specifies that the user created that bean using CXF APIs like Endpoint.publish or Service.getPort. The default is "false". Setting this to "true" does the following: Changes the internal name of the bean by appending either ".jaxws-client" or ".jaxws-endpoint" to the bean's id. Makes the bean abstract. See documentation for attribute abstract in attribute group beanAttributes in http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd