runeflobakk / spring-config-bug

Case which reproduces and isolates a bug in Spring when mixing Javaconfig and XML to configure the application context.

spring-config-bug

There seems to be a bug in Spring (3.2.2.RELEASE and earlier at time of writing) occuring when using a certain combination of both Javaconfig and XML to configure the application context.

Issue registered at Springsource: https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-10496

Configuration

Application context is configured using 3 constituents:

• main
• in-between
• leaf

Main imports in-between, which imports leaf. The only bean is defined in leaf, a simple String.

This works:

main.xml -> in-between.xml -> Leaf.java

Works fine, and I am able to retrieve the bean defined in Leaf.java.

This fails:

Main.java -> in-between.xml -> Leaf.java

Using Javaconfig as the "top node" of the configuration graph seems to disable the ability of imported XML configuration to import Javaconfig using the <bean class=".."> tag. The included JUnit test cases demonstrates this.