Hi All I was going through the hibernate search jira list (as you do on a saturday afternoon) and came across this: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HSEARCH-320 I was wondering if anyone would like me too look at this and see if I can reproduce this maybe verify it's a spring issue.  I have used Spring 2.5 and Hibernate Search and did not see this.  There doesnt seem to be much info on what the user was doing.  I presume he was using component-scan but again I can't see how this would cause an exception. Cheers Amin _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev