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.

Here is the entir

Answer 1

I had this error as well, and the problem turned out that, with cut and paste, I had inadvertently listed the same bean twice in my spring-servlet.xml:

<bean id="pathInfoHelper" class="org.nationalhistory.util.PathInfoHelper">
</bean>

<bean id="imageIndexer" class="org.nationalhistory.util.ImageIndexer"/>

<bean id="pathInfoHelper" class="org.nationalhistory.util.PathInfoHelper">
</bean>

I looked here and found this with the help of om39a's answer above (thanks!). I had just edited the file, and knew there was a chance I had pasted something extra (or something less) inadvertently. This double-entry, however, was NOT the bean that the error referred to!