[Springframework-developer] order of lookup-method in bean declaration important?

[Tim K. <tim...@vi...>]

Hi,

I was looking into integrating lookup-method in my context, and I was using
the reference found here:

http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/1.2/reference/beans.html#beans
-factory-method-injection

After much tussling around with some weird XML error, and looking at some
other examples pasted in the forums, I moved the <lookup-method> tag to
appear after the <property> tags, and it all worked after that.

So I think the example in the reference is misleading, since it places the
<lookup-method> tag before the <property> tag, which apparently does not
work for me (in Spring 1.2).  

So, does the order matter?  If so, the reference example should be updated
and the text to clearly state in what order it should appear in the <bean>
declaration.  

Thanks.

-tim