"bean not found" when injecting in different spring context files

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Hi,

I hope the following is clear if not I can clarify:

I have in my portlet a portlet-context.xml that imports a external-bean-context.xml file in which bean "customerService" is created via the following code

<bean id="customerService" scope="session" factory-bean="customerServiceLocator" factory-method="getCustomerService_customerServiceHttpPort">	
	<aop:scoped-proxy/>
</bean>

In a dependency jar that the portlet imports I have a servlet-context.xml that declares a bean "serviceObject". My issue is that I can't inject the customerService bean into the serviceObject and it is throwing an error "bean not found".

If I import the external-bean-context.xml file in either the portlet-context.xml or the service-context.xml it is only available in the portlet-context.xml file (as in when injecting no errors are thrown in the portlet-context.xml but errors are thrown in the service-context - "bean not found").

I have read up on the AOP scoping and believe this may be the issue but am not sure what to do.

Any ideas?

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I should also note that when injecting the customerService bean into the service-context.xml I recieve the following error:


Nested Exception is com.ibm.wps.pe.pc.legacy.impl.TransferPortletExcep tion: Error. Foundation tag could not find WclFacade in the session scope with id wcl_facade_key.