CastorMarshaller multiple mappingLocations and custom FieldHandlers

Castor version: 1.2
Spring-OXM version: 1.0.2

My spring CastorMarshaller bean definition is shown below, I am using it to aggregate multiple mapping files from different jars in my classpath. I see the mapping locations setting up ok during application context startup. However, the problem arises when I try to define a custom ConfigurableFieldHandler in one of my mapping files.

my marshaller bean:

Code:

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<bean id="castorMarshaller"
 class="org.springframework.oxm.castor.CastorMarshaller">
    <property name="mappingLocations">
        <list>
            <value>classpath*:castor/**/*cbm.xml</value>   
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>

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my field handler as defined in one of my mapping files:

Code:

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<field-handler name="myHandler" class="com.xxx.SomeConfigurableFieldHandler">
    <param name="someProp" value="somePropValue" />
</field-handler>

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This works fine if I change classpath*:castor/**/*cbm.xml to load a single mapping file that has all the other mapping files as castor includes (e.g., <include href="someOtherMappingFile"/>).

I believe the underlying problem starts in CastorMarshaller's createClassDescriptorResolver method where the following happens:

Code:

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for (int i = 0; i < mappingLocations.length; i++) {
    mapping.loadMapping(new InputSource(mappingLocations[i].getInputStream()));
}

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This trickles down to Castor's code (XMLMappingLoader.loadMapping) but the mapping root is lost this causes the _fieldHandlers in AbstractMappingLoader to reset.

Is this a Castor issue?

If I bypass spring's CastorMarshaller and load my multiple mappings manually using the method shown below it works fine:

Code:

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XMLContext context = new XMLContext();
context.addMapping("");

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