BeanNotOfRequiredTypeException due to autowired fields

Question

I\'m still new to Spring MVC and while building my test project, I got this message from Tomcat logs:

SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to          


        

Answer 1

I found lots of questions similar to this one, when searching google for my problem. However, in my case I already used an interface. So I thought this might be helpful for others:

This exception could also appear, if you have two beans with the same name!

In my case I had additional bean configuration in my applicationContext.xml. The problem appeared after I merged two applications. The second one defined a @Resource and its member-variable name matched the bean name of the first application, mentioned above. Of course, the bean configuration of the first application didn't fit for the bean included via @Resource by the second application.