Can someone explain this bean instantiation error

[beeky2@merck]

I added a bean to my Spring daoContext.xml and I'm getting the following error message when the container tries to instantiate the bean.

org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException: Could not instantiate class[myapp.dao.inventoryDao];
has class definition changed?
Is there a public no-arg constructor?;
nested exception is java.lang.IllegalAccessException:
Class org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils can not access a member of class myapp.dao.inventoryDao with modifiers "public"

I am not trying to set any properties. The definition is:
<bean id="inventoryDao" class="myapp.dao.inventoryDao" >
</bean>

There is a public no-arg constructor and the class file is current.

What is the error message referring to?

[simtin]

Hi,

are you sure your actual class is InventorDao - or is it possible that this is only an interface?

Only a thought ...

Simon

[Andreas Senft]

Some more thoughts:

- It could be a typo. You wrote "inventoryDao" with a lowercase "i"
- The class is possibly not public

Regards,
Andreas

[beeky2@merck]

Andreas, your second thought was correct. The class was not declared public. The error message had me focused on attributes and I did not see the forest for the trees.

Thanks again!