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Incorrect reference to abstract bean

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Last modified: 03 December 2024

Reports referenced abstract beans.

Abstract beans can be used only as template bean definitions, that is, parents for child definitions. Trying to use such an abstract parent bean on its own by referring to it as a ref property of another bean, or by calling getBean() with the parent bean id, will result in an error.

Example:

In this example, the parent bean can't be instantiated on its own since it is incomplete and explicitly marked as abstract.