DWR

When using Spring 2.5 the DwrNamespaceHandler can no longer find the class for beans that rely on a parent's bean definition to set the class to use.
Spring 2.5 does not create ChildBeanDefinition for such beans, but creates a GenericBeanDefinition (that also has a getParentName() method).

To work around this I changed the resolveBeanClassname method for the RemoteBeanDefinitionDecorator (see below). Basically I just use the top level method instead of checking what instance it is. This addressed the problem for me...

        private String resolveBeanClassname(BeanDefinition definition, BeanDefinitionRegistry registry)
        {
            String beanClassName = definition.getBeanClassName();
            if (!StringUtils.hasText(beanClassName))
            {
                String parentName = definition.getParentName();
                while (parentName != null)
                {
                    BeanDefinition parentDefinition = findParentDefinition(parentName, registry);
                    if (parentDefinition == null)
                    {
                        if (log.isDebugEnabled())
                        {
                            log.debug("No parent bean named '" + parentName + "' could be found in the " +
                                      "hierarchy of BeanFactorys. Check you've defined a bean called '" + parentName + "'");
                        }
                        break;
                    }
                    beanClassName = parentDefinition.getBeanClassName();
                    if (StringUtils.hasText(beanClassName ))
                    {
                        // found the class name we were looking for
                        break;
                    }
                    parentName = parentDefinition.getParentName();
                }
            }
           
            return beanClassName;
        }