http://supplesoftware.com/ en-us 40 Supple software comments <p>It seems that if a Spring context contains a class (A) and its superclass (B), the autowire by type for the superclass (B) fails.</p> <p>That&#8217;s because when it does the lookup for beans of type B, the context returns both B and A. It&#8217;s not wrong in any way, it&#8217;s probably exactly the right thing to do, but it somehow makes it a bit trickier to do tests well, for me now anyway&#8230;.</p> <p>Or, may be one should never instantiate classes which are not leafs of the hierarchy tree. Should may be all classes that can be extended be abstract?&#8230;. All non-final classes abstract&#8230;hm&#8230; weird thoughts, don&#8217;t pay too much attention&#8230;..</p> Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:22:55 PST <a href="/articles/2007/02/20/springs-autowire-by-type-and-inheritance">Spring's autowire by type and inheritance</a> <a href="/articles/2007/02/20/springs-autowire-by-type-and-inheritance">Spring's autowire by type and inheritance</a>