Context works find but Spring IDE eclipse plugin says "bean not found"

[lotus118]

Hi,

I have an (admittedly cosmetic) issue with the Spring IDE plugins for Eclipse that I've not been able to solve. I have a situation in which context files A and B are both imported by context C. B makes use of several beans defined in A, but since they're never used independently (only by C), this isn't a problem.

However, the Spring IDE plugin validator marks all of the references to beans in A in context file B as errors, saying something like "Referenced bean 'foo' not found bar.xml". Obviously this is a correct statement, but in my use case it's not an error.

Is there any way to tell the plugin this, or restructure my XML so that I don't get those errors? This particular issue causes about 50 Spring problems to appear in the problems view, which makes it very difficult to notice when there is a Spring problem that I actually have to solve.

I'm using version 2.2.4.RELEASE of the plugins.

Regards,
Maarten

[Jeter09]

I have this SAME problem. Instead of starting a new thread I figured I would just bump this one to the top.

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[Christian Dupuis]

Maarten,

there are two ways of solving this issue:

1. Only configure context C with Spring IDE and let the other files (A. B) handled by the import support. Doing so will not create the warning. Make sure that you don't add A and B as config files to Spring IDE as they would also be validated stand-alone which causes the validation error you are seeing.

2. Configure a Config Set for A, B, and C and don't enable Import processing for the project.

HTH

Christian