Bean definition is abstract

[Kavita Shivani]

Hi everyone,

I am get the following error on load of my application

 [b]org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanIsAbstractException: Error creating bean with name 'ltrTemplateHandler': Bean definition is abstract[/b]

I have not yet defined my abstract methods and also not defined my child class for this abstract class fully. Its work in progress. But my configuration seems to be wrong or something as my beans don't get created.


My application config xml looks as follows

<bean id="ltrTemplateMgrController"
		class="com.controller.LtrTemplateMgrController">
		<property name="ltrTemplateHandler" ref="ltrTemplateHandler"></property>
	</bean>

	<bean id="ltrTemplateHandler" class="com.handler.LtrTemplateHandler"
		abstract="true" />

	<bean id="fileHandler" parent="ltrTemplateHandler"
		class="com.handler.LtrTemplateFileHandler" />

The java classes are as follows

Controller

public class LtrTemplateMgrController {

	private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(LtrTemplateMgrController.class);
	private LtrTemplateHandler ltrTemplateHandler;

public LtrTemplateHandler getLtrTemplateHandler() {
		return ltrTemplateHandler;
	}

	public void setLtrTemplateHandler(LtrTemplateHandler ltrTemplateHandler) {
		this.ltrTemplateHandler = ltrTemplateHandler;
	}

LtrTemplateHandler

public abstract class LtrTemplateHandler {
	
	private String fileExportPath;
	private String fileImportPath;
	private String templateFileName;
	private String templateFileDescriptorName;
	public String getFileExportPath() {
		return fileExportPath;
	}
	public void setFileExportPath(String fileExportPath) {
		this.fileExportPath = fileExportPath;
	}
	public String getFileImportPath() {
		return fileImportPath;
	}
	public void setFileImportPath(String fileImportPath) {
		this.fileImportPath = fileImportPath;
	}
	public String getTemplateFileName() {
		return templateFileName;
	}
	public void setTemplateFileName(String templateFileName) {
		this.templateFileName = templateFileName;
	}
	public String getTemplateFileDescriptorName() {
		return templateFileDescriptorName;
	}
	public void setTemplateFileDescriptorName(String templateFileDescriptorName) {
		this.templateFileDescriptorName = templateFileDescriptorName;
	}

FileHandler

public class LtrTemplateFileHandler extends LtrTemplateHandler {
	
}

Please suggest if there anything I am doing wrongly?

Thanks,
Kavitha.