I love Spring!

I love Spring! The season as well as the framework. :)
For example, for one of my clients I had to install XPlanner as a project tracking and monitoring tool. (Yeah! I know there maybe a better XP tool available but XPlanner is simple and client likes it!) Anyway .. .

I downloaded xplanner 0.7b7 and tried to install under Vista Premium, running JRE 6 and Tomcat 6. This version of XPlanner is built on Spring 1.2 and I got this error

“org.springframework.beans.TypeMismatchException: Failed to convert property value of type [org.apache.commons.collections.map.LinkedMap] to required type [java.util.HashMap]” 
 

Checking onto source file showed that “MetaRepositoryImpl” takes a “java.util.Hashmap” as its “repositories” property. However for some reason Spring was constructing a LinkedMap instance for “< Map >” declaration in bean configuration. Hmmm .. needed further investigation but I did not have time!
Now I had two options:
1) I could modify the source of “MetaRepositoryImpl”.
2) Think about spring way - Below is what I did.
Previous=>

< property name="repositories">
  < map>
   < entry>
    ....
   < /entry> 
    ......
  < /map>
< /property>

Changed to=>

< property name="repositories">
  < bean class="java.util.HashMap">
    < constructor-arg>
     < map>
      < entry>
       ....
      < /entry> 
       ......
     < /map>
    < /constructor-arg>     
   < /bean> 
< /property>

Done! Spring saves the day!