Problem with injecting MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean

[umark]

Env: JDK1.6, Spring 2.5.1

I have an MBean server and am enabling remoting using RMI.
I am defining an MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean with the
service URL to enable clients to connect:

<bean
          id="jmxClientInterface"
         class="org.springframework.jmx.support.MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean"

            p:serviceUrl="${my.serviceurl}"
            p:connectOnStartup="false"
     />

I inject this factory bean into a typical client as follows:

  package com.xxx.client;

  public class JmxClient {
    //...
private MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean connection_factory;
	public MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean getServerConnectionFactory() {
		return connection_factory;
	}
	public synchronized final void setServerConnectionFactory(final MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean x) {
		this.connection_factory = x;
	}

     //...
 }

     <bean 
       id="jmxClient"
       class="com.xxx.client.JmxClient"
       scope="prototype"
         
         p:serverConnectionFactory-ref="jmxClientInterface"
         p:defaultDomain="${my.domain}"
    />

The problem: however this injection yields an exception as follows.
I am injecting an MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean into a field
which is of the same type (MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean).
Yet, it says that the injected entity is of type $Proxy.

PropertyAccessException 1: 
     org.springframework.beans.TypeMismatchException: 
          Failed to convert property value of type [$Proxy19] to required type 
          [org.springframework.jmx.support.MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean] 
       for property 'serverConnectionFactory'; 
        nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: 
         Cannot convert value of type [$Proxy19] to required type 
      [org.springframework.jmx.support.MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean] 
          for property 'serverConnectionFactory': 
           no matching editors or conversion strategy found

What am I missing? How did the injected MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean
suddenly become a proxy?

Thanks,

/U

[Mike Bingham]

Are you trying to inject the MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean into your JmxClient bean, or the MBeanServerConnection it produces? Currently, it looks like your configuration will inject the MBeanServerConnection produced by the MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean, which will be a proxy that lazily creates the connection.

If you want to inject the FactoryBean itself, you can do something like this:

     <bean 
       id="jmxClient"
       class="com.xxx.client.JmxClient"
       scope="prototype"  
       p:serverConnectionFactory-ref="&amp;jmxClientInterface"
       p:defaultDomain="${my.domain}"
    />

See here for more details:

http://static.springframework.org/sp...on-factorybean