Trying to learn, keep getting the same problem.

[boblaw]

I've recently started learning Spring. I've looked at the online MVC tutorial and have used "Spring, A Developer's Notebook". I keep running into the same problem. I define a bean in the *servlet.xml file that has a property with a value. After deploying the code to tomcat (6.0.16) and starting up, I keep getting initialization of bean failed. It seems to not be reading or interpreting the value. Here is part of my servlet.xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN/EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
<beans>

<bean id="rentaBike" class="com.springbook.ArrayListRentABike">
<property name="storeName"><value>Bruce's Bikes</value></property>
</bean>

And here is the error I receive from tomcat:

SEVERE: StandardWrapper.Throwable
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationExce ption: Error creating bean with name 'rentaBike' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/RentABikeApp-servlet.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.TypeMismatchException: Failed to convert property value of type [java.lang.String] to required type [java.lang.String] for property 'storeName'; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Original must not be null
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.Abstract AutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAu towireCapableBeanFactory.java:470)


Any help would be appreciated.

[pmularien]

I don't have a copy of this book, but have you checked the errata?

[boblaw]

yes, many times. I've reread the chapters. By the way. It is also happening with the tutorial that is on the springframework.org web site.

[brismith]

In the class com.springbook.ArrayListRentABike, of what type is storeName?

[smrutimo]

<bean id="rentaBike" class="com.springbook.ArrayListRentABike">
		<property name="storeName"><value>Bruce's Bikes</value></property>
	</bean>

Try using this instead.

<bean id="rentaBike" class="com.springbook.ArrayListRentABike">
		<property name="storeName"><value>Bruce&apos;s Bikes</value></property>
	</bean>

[boblaw]

storeName is a String

[boblaw]

It doesn't make any difference. I have even tried it without the quote sign. I read somewhere that tomcat creates a bean object and doesn't initialize it. That might be causing the null value. I don't know what the work around is if this is the problem.

[pmularien]

Can you upload a ZIP of your project and someone can perhaps try it out?

[smrutimo]

It doesn't make any difference. I have even tried it without the quote sign. I read somewhere that tomcat creates a bean object and doesn't initialize it. That might be causing the null value. I don't know what the work around is if this is the problem.

I never had such problems with tomcat. Did u try to do this ?
<property name="storeName" value="Bruce's Bikes" />