The current reference documentation shows XML configuration as the primary configuration style in some sections. While XML is still supported, it has not been the mainstream choice for more than a ...

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With value referenced from property file in XMLConfig, if a bean-defined class has an overloaded setter, an exception may be thrown at runtime. I checked the logs and found that the wrong setter was ...