Spring inject a list

[kartik krishnan]

Hi,

I am a Spring newbie and I am trying to inject the list in the applicationContext

My applicationContext.xml

   

 <bean id = "persons" class = "java.util.ArrayList" singleton="false" />

 

My code to access this bean:

   public class SpringTest {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    ApplicationContext context
        = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
              "/com/jbe/context/applicationContext-test.xml");
    List/*<?>*/ persons= (List /*<?>*/) context.getBean("persons");
    System.out.println(persons);
  }
} 

My stack trace;

  
org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'persons' is defined
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeanDefinition(Ljava/lang/String;)Lorg/springframework/beans/factory/config/BeanDefinition;(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:360)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getMergedBeanDefinition(Ljava/lang/String;Z)Lorg/springframework/beans/factory/support/RootBeanDefinition;(AbstractBeanFactory.java:686)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Class;[Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/Object;(AbstractBeanFactory.java:219)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Object;(AbstractBeanFactory.java:145)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBean(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/Object;(AbstractApplicationContext.java:537)
	at com.jbe.context.SpringTest.main([Ljava/lang/String;)V(SpringTest.java:19)
  

Is there anything wrong in what I am doing? I would like to add more elements to collection. I am using spring 1.2 and Jdk 1.4

[Christophe Verré]

"/com/jbe/context/applicationContext-test.xml" : are you sure that "persons" is in this file ?

[kartik krishnan]

Yes, the bean is in the file

[Christophe Verré]

And you have only one /com/jbe/context/applicationContext-test.xml in your classpath ? Also, could you post the exact content of your applicationContext-test.xml ?