No bean named 'user' is defined

[Jo Askew]

Hi guys. I have a problem and can't understand it. What I'm trying to do is to create a working example to see the how the spring works. I have looked over examples, everything is correct, but I still get the `No bean named 'user' is defined` message in console.
I'm trying to create an instance of User class, with some properties seted in applicationContext.
I need help.

The entity:

package com.demo.domain;

public class User {
	
	public User() {}

	private long id;
	private String name;
	private String login;
	private String password;
	private boolean active;
	
	/**
	 * @param id the id to set
	 */
	public void setId(long id) {
		this.id = id;
	}

	/**
	 * @return the id
	 */
	public long getId() {
		return id;
	}
	
	/**
	 * @param name the name to set
	 */
	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}
	/**
	 * @return the name
	 */
	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}
	/**
	 * @param login the login to set
	 */
	public void setLogin(String login) {
		this.login = login;
	}
	/**
	 * @return the login
	 */
	public String getLogin() {
		return login;
	}
	/**
	 * @param password the password to set
	 */
	public void setPassword(String password) {
		this.password = password;
	}
	/**
	 * @return the password
	 */
	public String getPassword() {
		return password;
	}
	/**
	 * @param active the active to set
	 */
	public void setActive(boolean active) {
		this.active = active;
	}
	/**
	 * @return the active
	 */
	public boolean isActive() {
		return active;
	}
}

The application context:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd"> <context:annotation-config /> <bean id="user" class="com.demo.domain.User"> <property name="id" value="1"/> <property name="name" value="name"/> <property name="login" value="login"/> <property name="password" value="pwd"/> <property name="active" value="true"/> </bean> </beans>

The main class:

package com.demo;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

import com.demo.domain.User;

public class MainClass {
	
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		MainClass main = new MainClass();
		main.bla();
	}
	
	private void bla() {
		ApplicationContext context =
			new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(new String[] {"classpath*:applicationContext.xml"});
		
		User cust = (User)context.getBean("user");
    	System.out.println(cust);
	}
}

The message in console:
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'user' is defined
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeanDefinition(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:527)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getMergedLocalBeanDefinition(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1087)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:278)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBean(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1093)
at com.demo.MainClass.bla(MainClass.java:19)
at com.demo.MainClass.main(MainClass.java:12)

I'm using eclipse IDE.
Thanks

[Sai Hegde]

The applicationContext is not being found. Ensure that your context file name is the same as that you have referenced in your code. Except that everything else looks fine.

[Jo Askew]

yep, everything is correct. I created a new project with the same configuration as above and everything went nice. No errors displayed.