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I'm seeing some odd behavior, I was hoping someone here can shine some light on the issue. Let me start by describing my setup. First, a simple data object public class Apple { private String name; public Apple withName(String name) { this.name = name; return this; } public String getName() { return name; } } And a test class.. @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class) @ContextConfiguration(classes={TestConfig.class}) public class AppleTest { @Autowired private Apple apples; @Test public void simpleTest() { System.out.println("OBJ: "+apples); } } The config is as follows @Configuration public interface ConfigInterface { public Apple getApple(); } With an implementing class @Configuration @Import(AbstractTestConfig.class) public class TestConfig implements ConfigInterface { public Apple getApple() { return new Apple().withName("Granny apples"); } } With the config dependency... @Configuration public class AbstractTestConfig { @Autowired ConfigInterface conf; @Bean Apple myTestApple() { return conf.getApple(); } } All of this works great. I run the test, I see the output I expect. But then I throw a spanner into the wheel and modify AbstractTestConfig to look as follows. @Configuration public class AbstractTestConfig { @Autowired ConfigInterface conf; @Bean Apple myTestApple() { return conf.getApple(); } // NEW CODE @Bean CustomScopeConfigurer scopeConfigurer() { return new CustomScopeConfigurer(); } } And all of a sudden the @Autowired object conf is null when it is required to construct the Apple bean. Even more odd, if I move the CustomScopeConfigurer</co

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