Referring bean declared in another xml file

Question

I am writing a simple spring program with the following files.

BeanRef.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

   <bean id="refbean" class="com.springstarter.RefBean">
       <property name="anotherBean" >
       <ref bean="anotherbean"/>
       </property>
   </bean>
</beans>

AnotherXml.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

   <bean id="anotherbean" class="com.springstarter.AnotherBean">
       <property name="message" value="Hello World!"/>
   </bean>
</beans>

RefBean.java

public class RefBean
{
    private AnotherBean anotherBean;

    public AnotherBean getAnotherBean()
    {
        return anotherBean;
    }

    public void setAnotherBean( AnotherBean anotherBean )
    {
        this.anotherBean = anotherBean;
    }
}

AnotherBean.java

public class AnotherBean
{
    private String message;

    public String getMessage()
    {
        return message;
    }

    public void setMessage( String message )
    {
        this.message = message;
    }
}

Main Program

public class BeanRefApp
{
    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
        @SuppressWarnings( "resource" )
        ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("BeanRef.xml");
        RefBean starter = ( RefBean ) context.getBean( "refbean" );
        System.out.println(starter.getAnotherBean().getMessage());
    }
}

Package structure:

As you can see in BeanRef.xml i'm trying to reference anotherbean declared in AnotherXml.xml.On run, it throws this exception,

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'anotherbean' is defined
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeanDefinition(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:698)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getMergedLocalBeanDefinition(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1175)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:284)

I think some inclusion code need to be added to BeanRef.xml to reference AnotherXml.xml. Kindly help me out.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 22 '16 at 07:21

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In your BeanRef.xml, import the other xml within beans tag like:

<import resource="classpath:AnotherXml.xml"/><!-- Assuming AnotherXml.xml is in your classpath as well-->

answered Jan 22 '16 at 07:21

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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Could you please try this

<import resource="classpath:config/spring/that-other-xml-conf.xml"/>
    <bean id="yourCoolBean" class="org.jdong.MyCoolBean">
        <property name="anotherBean" ref="thatOtherBean"/>
    </bean>

Please find reference link for same : how to reference a bean of another xml file in spring

edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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answered Jan 22 '16 at 07:30

Ravi Sinha

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Referring bean declared in another xml file

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