RE: [Springframework-developer] Hibernate session and ApplicationContext

[Alef A. <al...@jt...>]

> > Suppose there's two app contexts, A and B. In A there's bean 1 
> > depending
> on bean 2 in B. In B, there's bean 3, depending on bean 4 in 
> A. This is circular, however, I still want to somehow be able 
> to do this. Basically the BeanFactory stops processing bean 
> definitions if it can't find a bean reference that might be 
> located in a sibbling context. I tend to state that the bean 
> definition creation should postponed until all 
> sibbling-contexts are resolved and maybe then try it again? 
> Any suggestions (or just 'no not possible' will do as well :)
> 
> This should be possible already. In case of multiple context 
> definition files, all the bean definitions from all files get 
> loaded first - *then* context initialization and bean 
> pre-instantiation begins. The only thing that doesn't work, 
> because it arguably can't work, is two FactoryBeans 
> referencing each other. Can you give some details on what 
> doesn't work in your scenario?

I'll ask joost if I can't more details... He's probably got a couple of
example context files lying around...

Alef