Error creating bean with name dataSource: Requested bean is currently in creation

Issue

i am using spring 3, and i have two beans of view scope:

1- Bean1:

2- Bean2:

the view is a custom scope:

and here's the code for the custom view scope:

when opening the page that uses both beans, i get the exception:

please advise how to fix this exception.

EDIT: i tried to use the setter injection as referenced in the answer here

Understanding Spring context initialization order

but it doesn's work too.

1- Bean1:

2- Bean2:

but it gives me the exception:

Solution

Spring uses an special logic for resolving this kind of circular dependencies with singleton beans. But this won't apply to other scopes. There is no elegant way of breaking this circular dependency, but a clumsy option could be this one:

Anyway, circular dependencies are usually a symptom of bad design. You would think again if there is some better way of defining your class dependencies.

Answered By - sinuhepop