ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator problem

[roskha]

Hi, all:

I am trying to create a static class, which would return ApplicationContext. I am using pieces of code from this forum, but I am getting an exception.

The code is:

    public static ApplicationContext getApplicationContext(String applicationName) { 
      if( applicationContext == null ) { 
        synchronized( lock ) { 
          if( applicationContext == null ) { 
            BeanFactoryLocator bfl = ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance(); 
            BeanFactoryReference bf = bfl.useBeanFactory(applicationName);
            applicationContext = (ApplicationContext) bf.getFactory();
          } 
        } 
      } 
      return applicationContext; 
    }

beanRefContext is:

 <beans>

   <bean id="test.this.thing" lazy-init="true"
         class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext">
     <constructor-arg>
       <list>
         <value>/WEB-INF/applicationContextWeb.xml</value>
         <value>/com/greenview/fpi/util/applicationContextUtil.xml</value>
       </list>
     </constructor-arg>
   </bean>
...

Exception is:

org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException: Returned bean is not BeanFactory or its subclass. lookup ID [test.this.thing], factory key [test.this.thing], from group with resource name [classpath*:beanRefContext.xml]. Returned object class is [org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext]
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.access.SingletonBeanFactoryLocator.useBeanFactory(SingletonBeanFactoryLocator.java:408)

I would greatly appreciate any help.

Thanks.

[radegast]

 <beans>

   <bean id="test.this.thing" lazy-init="true"
         class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext">
     <constructor-arg>
       <list>
         <value>/WEB-INF/applicationContextWeb.xml</value>
         <value>/com/greenview/fpi/util/applicationContextUtil.xml</value>
       </list>
     </constructor-arg>
   </bean>
...

The /WEB-INF/applicationContextWeb.xml does not look like part of the
classpath. Try to move applicationContextWeb.xml under WEB-INF/classes and load without /WEB-INF/ prefix.

Good luck

[yangju]

Our beanRefContext is as follows:
<beans>
<bean id="springBeanContext" lazy-init="true"
class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPa thXmlApplicationContext">
<constructor-arg>
<list>
<value>appEjbBusinessObjects.xml</value>
<value>appManagers.xml</value>
</list>
</constructor-arg>
</bean>
</beans>

We use ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator. At deployment time, the beanRefContext.xml is loaded but it spring complained that it could not find one of the enclosed bean definitions xml, such as appManagers.xml. This xml is in a root of a different jar. I set the lazy-init="true". Why spring tries to load all bean xmls at deployment time. Because of this, we ended up putting all bean xmls into one big xml file, which is not desirable. We was expecting to have a bean xml for each our components.

Please help.