Jaber C. Mourad [http://community.jboss.org/people/newbeewan] created the discussion "Unable to chain processEngine as spring bean factory" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/540404#540404 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, I'm looking for a solution to create every services from processEngine directly via spring factory feature but Spring complain about circular references ! My current configuration : <bean id="springHelper">         <property name="jbpmCfg" value="jbpm.cfg.xml" />     </bean>     <bean id="processEngine" factory-bean="springHelper"         factory-method="createProcessEngine" scope="singleton" depends-on="springHelper" />     <bean id="repositoryService" factory-bean="processEngine"         factory-method="getRepositoryService" scope="singleton"         depends-on="springHelper,processEngine" /> I've got an Exception using that config : org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: org.jbpm.api.RepositoryService mypackage.myBean.repositoryService; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'repositoryService' defined in class path resource [cfg/jbpmConfigurationTest.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Factory method [public org.jbpm.api.RepositoryService org.jbpm.pvm.internal.processengine.ProcessEngineImpl.getRepositoryService()] threw exception; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCurrentlyInCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'repositoryService': Requested bean is currently in creation: Is there an unresolvable circular reference?     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:507)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:84)     at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:283) ... Is there any trick to force Spring to initiate the first factory then the processEngine, then the repositoryService and after all resolving autowired fields ? -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/540404#540404] Start a new discussion in jBPM at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]