Use "cyclic" instead of "recursive" in BeanDefinitionStoreException "Detected recursive loading of class path resource" [SPR-6755]

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Henno Vermeulen opened SPR-6755 and commented

Spring correctly detects cycles in <import> statements in XML configuration files. However it responds with the message:

"Detected RECURSIVE loading of class path resource..."

This is a confusing message because it is perfectly fine to have a hierarchical structure of imports (which can be recursively loaded).

(At least it confused me for almost an hour... Finally it turned out to be an Eclipse bug: it did not copy my correct changes in the .xml files in the source directory to the target directory so it used older .xml files which did contain a cycle of <import> statements...)

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Juergen Hoeller commented

Good point. I've changed the wording there for 3.0.1.

Juergen