Annotation-specified bean name conflicts with existing, non-compatible bean def

Question

I\'m having a problem with some Spring bean definitions. I have a couple of context xml files that are being loaded by my main() method, and both of them contain almost exclusiv

Answer 1

I had a similar problem, and it was because one of my beans had been moved to another directory recently. I needed to do a "build clean" by deleting the build/classes/java directory and the problem went away. (The error message had the two different file paths conflicting with each other, although I knew one should not actually exist anymore.)