BeanFactory not initialized or already closed - call 'refresh' before accessing beans

Question

I\'m trying to add spring security to a regular JSF application. After repeated tries and I\'m failing with the following error on tomcat bring-up.

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Answer 1

I had the same problem, and it turned out there's an issue with the maven spring dependency chain. Dependency org.springframework spring-context was imported with version 3.0.5, whereas the overall spring version I was using was 3.2.2. Explicitly adding the dependency in my pom.xml solved it.

I detected the issue by using the -verbose:class jvm argument when running the server, and checking the jars classes in the XmlWebApplicationContext inheritance tree were loaded from.