# \[Spring-Elasticsearch\] java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException when trying to inject esClient into Spring bean

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spring-elasticsearch-java-lang-reflect-malformedparameterizedtypeexception-when-trying-to-inject-esclient-into-spring-bean/13532
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 10, 2013, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spring-elasticsearch-java-lang-reflect-malformedparameterizedtypeexception-when-trying-to-inject-esclient-into-spring-bean/13532 "2013-09-10T08:28:33Z")
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### Author: ![Neal\_Ang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e495f1/32.png) [@Neal\_Ang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Neal_Ang)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2013, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spring-elasticsearch-java-lang-reflect-malformedparameterizedtypeexception-when-trying-to-inject-esclient-into-spring-bean/13532/1 "2013-09-10T08:28:33Z")

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Hi,

I'm trying to use elasticsearch with spring using  
dadoonet/spring-elasticsearch.

But I keep hitting this exception  
"java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException"

Heres the stacktrace:

10 Sep 2013 16:19:44 [main] ERROR  
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader - Context initialization  
failed  
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating  
bean with name 'esClient' defined in class path resource [springES.xml]:  
Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is  
java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException  
Caused by:  
java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException  
at  
sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl.validateConstructorArguments(ParameterizedTypeImpl.java:42)  
at  
sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl.(ParameterizedTypeImpl.java:35)  
at  
sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl.make(ParameterizedTypeImpl.java:77)  
at  
sun.reflect.generics.factory.CoreReflectionFactory.makeParameterizedType(CoreReflectionFactory.java:86)  
at  
sun.reflect.generics.visitor.Reifier.visitClassTypeSignature(Reifier.java:122)  
at  
sun.reflect.generics.tree.ClassTypeSignature.accept(ClassTypeSignature.java:31)  
at  
sun.reflect.generics.repository.ClassRepository.getSuperInterfaces(ClassRepository.java:82)  
at java.lang.Class.getGenericInterfaces(Class.java:794)  
at  
org.aspectj.weaver.reflect.Java15ReflectionBasedReferenceTypeDelegate.getDeclaredInterfaces(Java15ReflectionBasedReferenceTypeDelegate.java:121)  
at  
org.aspectj.weaver.ReferenceType.getDeclaredInterfaces(ReferenceType.java:430)  
at  
org.aspectj.weaver.ResolvedType.getDirectSupertypes(ResolvedType.java:65)  
at  
org.aspectj.weaver.JoinPointSignatureIterator.findSignaturesFromSupertypes(JoinPointSignatureIterator.java:164)  
at  
org.aspectj.weaver.JoinPointSignatureIterator.hasNext(JoinPointSignatureIterator.java:69)  
at  
org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.SignaturePattern.matches(SignaturePattern.java:287)  
at  
org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.KindedPointcut.matchInternal(KindedPointcut.java:106)  
at org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.Pointcut.match(Pointcut.java:146)  
at  
org.aspectj.weaver.internal.tools.PointcutExpressionImpl.getShadowMatch(PointcutExpressionImpl.java:235)  
at  
org.aspectj.weaver.internal.tools.PointcutExpressionImpl.matchesExecution(PointcutExpressionImpl.java:101)  
at  
org.aspectj.weaver.internal.tools.PointcutExpressionImpl.matchesMethodExecution(PointcutExpressionImpl.java:92)  
at  
org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.getShadowMatch(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:349)  
at  
org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.matches(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:231)  
at  
org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply(AopUtils.java:205)  
at  
org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply(AopUtils.java:244)  
at  
org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.findAdvisorsThatCanApply(AopUtils.java:278)  
at  
org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.findEligibleAdvisors(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:83)  
at  
org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.getAdvicesAndAdvisorsForBean(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:66)  
at  
org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAutoProxyCreator.postProcessAfterInitialization(AbstractAutoProxyCreator.java:296)  
at  
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsAfterInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:313)  
at  
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1176)  
at  
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:427)  
at  
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:249)  
at  
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:155)  
at  
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:246)  
at  
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:160)  
at  
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:285)  
at  
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:352)  
at  
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:245)  
at  
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:188)  
at  
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)  
at  
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.contextListenerStart(StandardContext.java:4750)  
at  
com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.contextListenerStart(WebModule.java:550)  
at  
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:5366)  
at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:498)  
at  
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:917)  
at  
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:901)  
at  
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:733)  
at  
com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:2018)  
at  
com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:1669)  
at  
com.sun.enterprise.web.WebApplication.start(WebApplication.java:109)  
at org.glassfish.internal.data.EngineRef.start(EngineRef.java:130)  
at org.glassfish.internal.data.ModuleInfo.start(ModuleInfo.java:269)  
at  
org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationInfo.start(ApplicationInfo.java:301)  
at  
com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:461)  
at  
com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLoaderService.processApplication(ApplicationLoaderService.java:375)  
at  
com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLoaderService.postConstruct(ApplicationLoaderService.java:219)  
at  
com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractCreatorImpl.inject(AbstractCreatorImpl.java:131)  
at  
com.sun.hk2.component.ConstructorCreator.initialize(ConstructorCreator.java:91)  
at  
com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractCreatorImpl.get(AbstractCreatorImpl.java:82)  
at  
com.sun.hk2.component.SingletonInhabitant.get(SingletonInhabitant.java:67)  
at  
com.sun.hk2.component.EventPublishingInhabitant.get(EventPublishingInhabitant.java:139)  
at  
com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractInhabitantImpl.get(AbstractInhabitantImpl.java:78)

This is the contect file that I'm using. Its a file that will be added to a  
'main' spring.xml:

\<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?\>

```
<!-- util:map id="esproperties">
    <entry key="cluster.name" value="es_neal" />
</util:map -->

<bean id="esClient" 

```

class="fr.pilato.spring.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchTransportClientFactoryBean"

> 

```
    <!-- If ElasticsearchTransportClientFactoryBean -->
    <property name="esNodes">
        <list>
            <value>com.sg.neal1:9300</value>
            <value>com.sg.neal2:9300</value>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>  

```

Heres the list of spring jars i have in my lib/  
spring-agent.jar  
spring-aspects.jar  
spring-elasticsearch-0.2.0.jar  
spring.jar  
spring-ldap-1.2-RC1.jar  
spring-mock.jar  
xbean-spring-2.8.jar

based on the MANIFEST.MF of the jars, I'm using Spring-Version: 2.0.7

Any ideas how I can resolve the exception?

TIA  
Neal

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#### Post date: [September 10, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spring-elasticsearch-java-lang-reflect-malformedparameterizedtypeexception-when-trying-to-inject-esclient-into-spring-bean/13532/2 "2013-09-10T15:19:44Z")

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Your spring version is ancient. Try upgrading to 3.x.  
hth,  
Milan

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Neal Ang [cyph3rd@gmail.com](mailto:cyph3rd@gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use elasticsearch with spring using  
> dadoonet/spring-elasticsearch.
> 
> But I keep hitting this exception  
> "java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException"
> 
> Heres the stacktrace:
> 
> 10 Sep 2013 16:19:44 [main] ERROR  
> org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader - Context initialization  
> failed  
> org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating  
> bean with name 'esClient' defined in class path resource [springES.xml]:  
> Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is  
> java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException  
> Caused by:  
> java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException  
> at  
> sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl.validateConstructorArguments(ParameterizedTypeImpl.java:42)  
> at  
> sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl.(ParameterizedTypeImpl.java:35)  
> at  
> sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl.make(ParameterizedTypeImpl.java:77)  
> at  
> sun.reflect.generics.factory.CoreReflectionFactory.makeParameterizedType(CoreReflectionFactory.java:86)  
> at  
> sun.reflect.generics.visitor.Reifier.visitClassTypeSignature(Reifier.java:122)  
> at  
> sun.reflect.generics.tree.ClassTypeSignature.accept(ClassTypeSignature.java:31)  
> at  
> sun.reflect.generics.repository.ClassRepository.getSuperInterfaces(ClassRepository.java:82)  
> at java.lang.Class.getGenericInterfaces(Class.java:794)  
> at  
> org.aspectj.weaver.reflect.Java15ReflectionBasedReferenceTypeDelegate.getDeclaredInterfaces(Java15ReflectionBasedReferenceTypeDelegate.java:121)  
> at  
> org.aspectj.weaver.ReferenceType.getDeclaredInterfaces(ReferenceType.java:430)  
> at  
> org.aspectj.weaver.ResolvedType.getDirectSupertypes(ResolvedType.java:65)  
> at  
> org.aspectj.weaver.JoinPointSignatureIterator.findSignaturesFromSupertypes(JoinPointSignatureIterator.java:164)  
> at  
> org.aspectj.weaver.JoinPointSignatureIterator.hasNext(JoinPointSignatureIterator.java:69)  
> at  
> org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.SignaturePattern.matches(SignaturePattern.java:287)  
> at  
> org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.KindedPointcut.matchInternal(KindedPointcut.java:106)  
> at org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.Pointcut.match(Pointcut.java:146)  
> at  
> org.aspectj.weaver.internal.tools.PointcutExpressionImpl.getShadowMatch(PointcutExpressionImpl.java:235)  
> at  
> org.aspectj.weaver.internal.tools.PointcutExpressionImpl.matchesExecution(PointcutExpressionImpl.java:101)  
> at  
> org.aspectj.weaver.internal.tools.PointcutExpressionImpl.matchesMethodExecution(PointcutExpressionImpl.java:92)  
> at  
> org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.getShadowMatch(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:349)  
> at  
> org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.matches(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:231)  
> at  
> org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply(AopUtils.java:205)  
> at  
> org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply(AopUtils.java:244)  
> at  
> org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.findAdvisorsThatCanApply(AopUtils.java:278)  
> at  
> org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.findEligibleAdvisors(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:83)  
> at  
> org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.getAdvicesAndAdvisorsForBean(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:66)  
> at  
> org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAutoProxyCreator.postProcessAfterInitialization(AbstractAutoProxyCreator.java:296)  
> at  
> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsAfterInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:313)  
> at  
> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1176)  
> at  
> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:427)  
> at  
> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:249)  
> at  
> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:155)  
> at  
> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:246)  
> at  
> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:160)  
> at  
> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:285)  
> at  
> org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:352)  
> at  
> org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:245)  
> at  
> org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:188)  
> at  
> org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)  
> at  
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.contextListenerStart(StandardContext.java:4750)  
> at  
> com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.contextListenerStart(WebModule.java:550)  
> at  
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:5366)  
> at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:498)  
> at  
> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:917)  
> at  
> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:901)  
> at  
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:733)  
> at  
> com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:2018)  
> at  
> com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:1669)  
> at  
> com.sun.enterprise.web.WebApplication.start(WebApplication.java:109)  
> at org.glassfish.internal.data.EngineRef.start(EngineRef.java:130)  
> at  
> org.glassfish.internal.data.ModuleInfo.start(ModuleInfo.java:269)  
> at  
> org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationInfo.start(ApplicationInfo.java:301)  
> at  
> com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:461)  
> at  
> com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLoaderService.processApplication(ApplicationLoaderService.java:375)  
> at  
> com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLoaderService.postConstruct(ApplicationLoaderService.java:219)  
> at  
> com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractCreatorImpl.inject(AbstractCreatorImpl.java:131)  
> at  
> com.sun.hk2.component.ConstructorCreator.initialize(ConstructorCreator.java:91)  
> at  
> com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractCreatorImpl.get(AbstractCreatorImpl.java:82)  
> at  
> com.sun.hk2.component.SingletonInhabitant.get(SingletonInhabitant.java:67)  
> at  
> com.sun.hk2.component.EventPublishingInhabitant.get(EventPublishingInhabitant.java:139)  
> at  
> com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractInhabitantImpl.get(AbstractInhabitantImpl.java:78)
> 
> This is the contect file that I'm using. Its a file that will be added to  
> a 'main' spring.xml:
> 
> \<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?\>
> 
> ```
> <!-- util:map id="esproperties">
> <entry key="cluster.name" value="es_neal" />
> </util:map -->
> 
> <bean id="esClient"
> 
> ```
> 
> class="fr.pilato.spring.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchTransportClientFactoryBean"
> 
> > 
> 
> ```
> <!-- If ElasticsearchTransportClientFactoryBean -->
> <property name="esNodes">
> <list>
> <value>com.sg.neal1:9300</value>
> <value>com.sg.neal2:9300</value>
> </list>
> </property>
> </bean>
> 
> ```
> 
> Heres the list of spring jars i have in my lib/  
> spring-agent.jar  
> spring-aspects.jar  
> spring-elasticsearch-0.2.0.jar  
> spring.jar  
> spring-ldap-1.2-RC1.jar  
> spring-mock.jar  
> xbean-spring-2.8.jar
> 
> based on the MANIFEST.MF of the jars, I'm using Spring-Version: 2.0.7
> 
> Any ideas how I can resolve the exception?
> 
> TIA  
> Neal
> 
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### Author: ![Neal\_Ang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e495f1/32.png) [@Neal\_Ang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Neal_Ang)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2013, 2:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spring-elasticsearch-java-lang-reflect-malformedparameterizedtypeexception-when-trying-to-inject-esclient-into-spring-bean/13532/3 "2013-09-11T02:03:40Z")

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Hi Milan,

Thanks for your reply. My spring version is admittedly old, unfortunately  
the project was done quite awhile ago and lots of codes depends on the  
older spring version. Will try to see if I can upgrade the Spring jars.

thanks  
Neal

On Tuesday, 10 September 2013 23:19:44 UTC+8, clandestino\_bgd wrote:

> Your spring version is ancient. Try upgrading to 3.x.  
> hth,  
> Milan
> 
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Neal Ang \<[cyp...@gmail.com](mailto:cyp...@gmail.com) \<javascript:\>
> 
> > wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to use elasticsearch with spring using  
> > dadoonet/spring-elasticsearch.
> > 
> > But I keep hitting this exception  
> > "java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException"
> > 
> > Heres the stacktrace:
> > 
> > 10 Sep 2013 16:19:44 [main] ERROR  
> > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader - Context initialization  
> > failed  
> > org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating  
> > bean with name 'esClient' defined in class path resource [springES.xml]:  
> > Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is  
> > java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException  
> > Caused by:  
> > java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException  
> > at  
> > sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl.validateConstructorArguments(ParameterizedTypeImpl.java:42)  
> > at  
> > sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl.(ParameterizedTypeImpl.java:35)  
> > at  
> > sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl.make(ParameterizedTypeImpl.java:77)  
> > at  
> > sun.reflect.generics.factory.CoreReflectionFactory.makeParameterizedType(CoreReflectionFactory.java:86)  
> > at  
> > sun.reflect.generics.visitor.Reifier.visitClassTypeSignature(Reifier.java:122)  
> > at  
> > sun.reflect.generics.tree.ClassTypeSignature.accept(ClassTypeSignature.java:31)  
> > at  
> > sun.reflect.generics.repository.ClassRepository.getSuperInterfaces(ClassRepository.java:82)  
> > at java.lang.Class.getGenericInterfaces(Class.java:794)  
> > at  
> > org.aspectj.weaver.reflect.Java15ReflectionBasedReferenceTypeDelegate.getDeclaredInterfaces(Java15ReflectionBasedReferenceTypeDelegate.java:121)  
> > at  
> > org.aspectj.weaver.ReferenceType.getDeclaredInterfaces(ReferenceType.java:430)  
> > at  
> > org.aspectj.weaver.ResolvedType.getDirectSupertypes(ResolvedType.java:65)  
> > at  
> > org.aspectj.weaver.JoinPointSignatureIterator.findSignaturesFromSupertypes(JoinPointSignatureIterator.java:164)  
> > at  
> > org.aspectj.weaver.JoinPointSignatureIterator.hasNext(JoinPointSignatureIterator.java:69)  
> > at  
> > org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.SignaturePattern.matches(SignaturePattern.java:287)  
> > at  
> > org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.KindedPointcut.matchInternal(KindedPointcut.java:106)  
> > at org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.Pointcut.match(Pointcut.java:146)  
> > at  
> > org.aspectj.weaver.internal.tools.PointcutExpressionImpl.getShadowMatch(PointcutExpressionImpl.java:235)  
> > at  
> > org.aspectj.weaver.internal.tools.PointcutExpressionImpl.matchesExecution(PointcutExpressionImpl.java:101)  
> > at  
> > org.aspectj.weaver.internal.tools.PointcutExpressionImpl.matchesMethodExecution(PointcutExpressionImpl.java:92)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.getShadowMatch(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:349)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.matches(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:231)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply(AopUtils.java:205)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply(AopUtils.java:244)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.findAdvisorsThatCanApply(AopUtils.java:278)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.findEligibleAdvisors(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:83)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.getAdvicesAndAdvisorsForBean(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:66)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAutoProxyCreator.postProcessAfterInitialization(AbstractAutoProxyCreator.java:296)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsAfterInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:313)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1176)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:427)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:249)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:155)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:246)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:160)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:285)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:352)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:245)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:188)  
> > at  
> > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)  
> > at  
> > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.contextListenerStart(StandardContext.java:4750)  
> > at  
> > com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.contextListenerStart(WebModule.java:550)  
> > at  
> > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:5366)  
> > at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:498)  
> > at  
> > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:917)  
> > at  
> > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:901)  
> > at  
> > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:733)  
> > at  
> > com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:2018)  
> > at  
> > com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:1669)  
> > at  
> > com.sun.enterprise.web.WebApplication.start(WebApplication.java:109)  
> > at org.glassfish.internal.data.EngineRef.start(EngineRef.java:130)  
> > at  
> > org.glassfish.internal.data.ModuleInfo.start(ModuleInfo.java:269)  
> > at  
> > org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationInfo.start(ApplicationInfo.java:301)  
> > at  
> > com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:461)  
> > at  
> > com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLoaderService.processApplication(ApplicationLoaderService.java:375)  
> > at  
> > com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLoaderService.postConstruct(ApplicationLoaderService.java:219)  
> > at  
> > com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractCreatorImpl.inject(AbstractCreatorImpl.java:131)  
> > at  
> > com.sun.hk2.component.ConstructorCreator.initialize(ConstructorCreator.java:91)  
> > at  
> > com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractCreatorImpl.get(AbstractCreatorImpl.java:82)  
> > at  
> > com.sun.hk2.component.SingletonInhabitant.get(SingletonInhabitant.java:67)  
> > at  
> > com.sun.hk2.component.EventPublishingInhabitant.get(EventPublishingInhabitant.java:139)  
> > at  
> > com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractInhabitantImpl.get(AbstractInhabitantImpl.java:78)
> > 
> > This is the contect file that I'm using. Its a file that will be added to  
> > a 'main' spring.xml:
> > 
> > \<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?\>
> > 
> > ```
> > <!-- util:map id="esproperties">
> > <entry key="cluster.name" value="es_neal" />
> > </util:map -->
> > 
> > <bean id="esClient" 
> > 
> > ```
> > 
> > class="fr.pilato.spring.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchTransportClientFactoryBean"
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > ```
> > <!-- If ElasticsearchTransportClientFactoryBean -->
> > <property name="esNodes">
> > <list>
> > <value>com.sg.neal1:9300</value>
> > <value>com.sg.neal2:9300</value>
> > </list>
> > </property>
> > </bean>  
> > 
> > ```
> > 
> > Heres the list of spring jars i have in my lib/  
> > spring-agent.jar  
> > spring-aspects.jar  
> > spring-elasticsearch-0.2.0.jar  
> > spring.jar  
> > spring-ldap-1.2-RC1.jar  
> > spring-mock.jar  
> > xbean-spring-2.8.jar
> > 
> > based on the MANIFEST.MF of the jars, I'm using Spring-Version: 2.0.7
> > 
> > Any ideas how I can resolve the exception?
> > 
> > TIA  
> > Neal
> > 
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### Author: ![Neal\_Ang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e495f1/32.png) [@Neal\_Ang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Neal_Ang)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spring-elasticsearch-java-lang-reflect-malformedparameterizedtypeexception-when-trying-to-inject-esclient-into-spring-bean/13532/4 "2013-09-13T01:40:55Z")

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Hi Milan,

Have managed to upgrade Spring to 3.2.2 after a long hard fight with the  
jars and now I'm back to the  
same "java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException".

Please help .

regards  
Neal

On Wednesday, 11 September 2013 10:03:40 UTC+8, Neal Ang wrote:

> Hi Milan,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. My spring version is admittedly old, unfortunately  
> the project was done quite awhile ago and lots of codes depends on the  
> older spring version. Will try to see if I can upgrade the Spring jars.
> 
> thanks  
> Neal
> 
> On Tuesday, 10 September 2013 23:19:44 UTC+8, clandestino\_bgd wrote:
> 
> > Your spring version is ancient. Try upgrading to 3.x.  
> > hth,  
> > Milan
> > 
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Neal Ang [cyp...@gmail.com](mailto:cyp...@gmail.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to use elasticsearch with spring using  
> > > dadoonet/spring-elasticsearch.
> > > 
> > > But I keep hitting this exception  
> > > "java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException"
> > > 
> > > Heres the stacktrace:
> > > 
> > > 10 Sep 2013 16:19:44 [main] ERROR  
> > > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader - Context initialization  
> > > failed  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating  
> > > bean with name 'esClient' defined in class path resource [springES.xml]:  
> > > Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is  
> > > java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException  
> > > Caused by:  
> > > java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException  
> > > at  
> > > sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl.validateConstructorArguments(ParameterizedTypeImpl.java:42)  
> > > at  
> > > sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl.(ParameterizedTypeImpl.java:35)  
> > > at  
> > > sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl.make(ParameterizedTypeImpl.java:77)  
> > > at  
> > > sun.reflect.generics.factory.CoreReflectionFactory.makeParameterizedType(CoreReflectionFactory.java:86)  
> > > at  
> > > sun.reflect.generics.visitor.Reifier.visitClassTypeSignature(Reifier.java:122)  
> > > at  
> > > sun.reflect.generics.tree.ClassTypeSignature.accept(ClassTypeSignature.java:31)  
> > > at  
> > > sun.reflect.generics.repository.ClassRepository.getSuperInterfaces(ClassRepository.java:82)  
> > > at java.lang.Class.getGenericInterfaces(Class.java:794)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.reflect.Java15ReflectionBasedReferenceTypeDelegate.getDeclaredInterfaces(Java15ReflectionBasedReferenceTypeDelegate.java:121)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.ReferenceType.getDeclaredInterfaces(ReferenceType.java:430)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.ResolvedType.getDirectSupertypes(ResolvedType.java:65)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.JoinPointSignatureIterator.findSignaturesFromSupertypes(JoinPointSignatureIterator.java:164)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.JoinPointSignatureIterator.hasNext(JoinPointSignatureIterator.java:69)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.SignaturePattern.matches(SignaturePattern.java:287)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.KindedPointcut.matchInternal(KindedPointcut.java:106)  
> > > at org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.Pointcut.match(Pointcut.java:146)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.internal.tools.PointcutExpressionImpl.getShadowMatch(PointcutExpressionImpl.java:235)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.internal.tools.PointcutExpressionImpl.matchesExecution(PointcutExpressionImpl.java:101)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.internal.tools.PointcutExpressionImpl.matchesMethodExecution(PointcutExpressionImpl.java:92)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.getShadowMatch(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:349)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.matches(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:231)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply(AopUtils.java:205)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply(AopUtils.java:244)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.findAdvisorsThatCanApply(AopUtils.java:278)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.findEligibleAdvisors(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:83)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.getAdvicesAndAdvisorsForBean(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:66)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAutoProxyCreator.postProcessAfterInitialization(AbstractAutoProxyCreator.java:296)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsAfterInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:313)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1176)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:427)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:249)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:155)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:246)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:160)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:285)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:352)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:245)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:188)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)  
> > > at  
> > > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.contextListenerStart(StandardContext.java:4750)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.contextListenerStart(WebModule.java:550)  
> > > at  
> > > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:5366)  
> > > at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:498)  
> > > at  
> > > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:917)  
> > > at  
> > > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:901)  
> > > at  
> > > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:733)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:2018)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:1669)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.enterprise.web.WebApplication.start(WebApplication.java:109)  
> > > at  
> > > org.glassfish.internal.data.EngineRef.start(EngineRef.java:130)  
> > > at  
> > > org.glassfish.internal.data.ModuleInfo.start(ModuleInfo.java:269)  
> > > at  
> > > org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationInfo.start(ApplicationInfo.java:301)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:461)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLoaderService.processApplication(ApplicationLoaderService.java:375)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLoaderService.postConstruct(ApplicationLoaderService.java:219)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractCreatorImpl.inject(AbstractCreatorImpl.java:131)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.hk2.component.ConstructorCreator.initialize(ConstructorCreator.java:91)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractCreatorImpl.get(AbstractCreatorImpl.java:82)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.hk2.component.SingletonInhabitant.get(SingletonInhabitant.java:67)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.hk2.component.EventPublishingInhabitant.get(EventPublishingInhabitant.java:139)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractInhabitantImpl.get(AbstractInhabitantImpl.java:78)
> > > 
> > > This is the contect file that I'm using. Its a file that will be added  
> > > to a 'main' spring.xml:
> > > 
> > > \<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?\>
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > <!-- util:map id="esproperties">
> > > <entry key="cluster.name" value="es_neal" />
> > > </util:map -->
> > > 
> > > <bean id="esClient" 
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > 
> > > class="fr.pilato.spring.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchTransportClientFactoryBean"
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > <!-- If ElasticsearchTransportClientFactoryBean -->
> > > <property name="esNodes">
> > > <list>
> > > <value>com.sg.neal1:9300</value>
> > > <value>com.sg.neal2:9300</value>
> > > </list>
> > > </property>
> > > </bean>  
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > 
> > > Heres the list of spring jars i have in my lib/  
> > > spring-agent.jar  
> > > spring-aspects.jar  
> > > spring-elasticsearch-0.2.0.jar  
> > > spring.jar  
> > > spring-ldap-1.2-RC1.jar  
> > > spring-mock.jar  
> > > xbean-spring-2.8.jar
> > > 
> > > based on the MANIFEST.MF of the jars, I'm using Spring-Version: 2.0.7
> > > 
> > > Any ideas how I can resolve the exception?
> > > 
> > > TIA  
> > > Neal
> > > 
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### Author: ![Prasanth\_Nair](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prasanth_nair/32/2102_2.png) [@Prasanth\_Nair](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prasanth_Nair)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spring-elasticsearch-java-lang-reflect-malformedparameterizedtypeexception-when-trying-to-inject-esclient-into-spring-bean/13532/5 "2013-09-13T03:50:13Z")

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Hey Neal

2 things to note, make sure spring is 3.XX and keep es version to be .9.0,  
now you also need to make sure that you did not keep any solr jars in your  
POM dependency

Here is a snap shot of my context xml

\<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?\>

\<beans xmlns="[Index of /schema/beans](http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans)"

xmlns:xsi="[http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance](http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance)" xmlns:cxf=  
"[http://cxf.apache.org/core](http://cxf.apache.org/core)"

xmlns:context="[Index of /schema/context](http://www.springframework.org/schema/context)"

xmlns:jaxrs="[http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs](http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs)" xmlns:amq=  
"[Index of /schema/core](http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core)"

xmlns:jms="[Index of /schema/jms](http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms)" xmlns:util=  
"[Index of /schema/util](http://www.springframework.org/schema/util)"

xmlns:elasticsearch="[http://www.pilato.fr/schema/elasticsearch](http://www.pilato.fr/schema/elasticsearch)"

xsi:schemaLocation="

```
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 

```

[http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd](http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd)

```
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms 

```

[http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms/spring-jms-3.0.xsd](http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms/spring-jms-3.0.xsd)

```
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 

```

[http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd](http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd)

```
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/util 

```

[http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd](http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd)

```
   http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core 

```

[http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core/activemq-core-5.5.0.xsd](http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core/activemq-core-5.5.0.xsd)

```
   http://cxf.apache.org/core http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/core.xsd

   http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxrs.xsd

   http://www.pilato.fr/schema/elasticsearch 

```

[http://www.pilato.fr/schema/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.2.xsd](http://www.pilato.fr/schema/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.2.xsd)"\>

\<util:map id="esproperties"\>

\</util:map\>

\<bean id="esNode"

class="fr.pilato.spring.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchNodeFactoryBean"\>

\<bean id="esClient"

class=  
"fr.pilato.spring.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchTransportClientFactoryBean"\>

localhost:9300

localhost:9301

On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 7:33:40 AM UTC+5:30, Neal Ang wrote:

> Hi Milan,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. My spring version is admittedly old, unfortunately  
> the project was done quite awhile ago and lots of codes depends on the  
> older spring version. Will try to see if I can upgrade the Spring jars.
> 
> thanks  
> Neal
> 
> On Tuesday, 10 September 2013 23:19:44 UTC+8, clandestino\_bgd wrote:
> 
> > Your spring version is ancient. Try upgrading to 3.x.  
> > hth,  
> > Milan
> > 
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Neal Ang [cyp...@gmail.com](mailto:cyp...@gmail.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to use elasticsearch with spring using  
> > > dadoonet/spring-elasticsearch.
> > > 
> > > But I keep hitting this exception  
> > > "java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException"
> > > 
> > > Heres the stacktrace:
> > > 
> > > 10 Sep 2013 16:19:44 [main] ERROR  
> > > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader - Context initialization  
> > > failed  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating  
> > > bean with name 'esClient' defined in class path resource [springES.xml]:  
> > > Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is  
> > > java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException  
> > > Caused by:  
> > > java.lang.reflect.MalformedParameterizedTypeException  
> > > at  
> > > sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl.validateConstructorArguments(ParameterizedTypeImpl.java:42)  
> > > at  
> > > sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl.(ParameterizedTypeImpl.java:35)  
> > > at  
> > > sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl.make(ParameterizedTypeImpl.java:77)  
> > > at  
> > > sun.reflect.generics.factory.CoreReflectionFactory.makeParameterizedType(CoreReflectionFactory.java:86)  
> > > at  
> > > sun.reflect.generics.visitor.Reifier.visitClassTypeSignature(Reifier.java:122)  
> > > at  
> > > sun.reflect.generics.tree.ClassTypeSignature.accept(ClassTypeSignature.java:31)  
> > > at  
> > > sun.reflect.generics.repository.ClassRepository.getSuperInterfaces(ClassRepository.java:82)  
> > > at java.lang.Class.getGenericInterfaces(Class.java:794)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.reflect.Java15ReflectionBasedReferenceTypeDelegate.getDeclaredInterfaces(Java15ReflectionBasedReferenceTypeDelegate.java:121)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.ReferenceType.getDeclaredInterfaces(ReferenceType.java:430)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.ResolvedType.getDirectSupertypes(ResolvedType.java:65)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.JoinPointSignatureIterator.findSignaturesFromSupertypes(JoinPointSignatureIterator.java:164)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.JoinPointSignatureIterator.hasNext(JoinPointSignatureIterator.java:69)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.SignaturePattern.matches(SignaturePattern.java:287)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.KindedPointcut.matchInternal(KindedPointcut.java:106)  
> > > at org.aspectj.weaver.patterns.Pointcut.match(Pointcut.java:146)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.internal.tools.PointcutExpressionImpl.getShadowMatch(PointcutExpressionImpl.java:235)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.internal.tools.PointcutExpressionImpl.matchesExecution(PointcutExpressionImpl.java:101)  
> > > at  
> > > org.aspectj.weaver.internal.tools.PointcutExpressionImpl.matchesMethodExecution(PointcutExpressionImpl.java:92)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.getShadowMatch(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:349)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJExpressionPointcut.matches(AspectJExpressionPointcut.java:231)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply(AopUtils.java:205)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.canApply(AopUtils.java:244)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.findAdvisorsThatCanApply(AopUtils.java:278)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.findEligibleAdvisors(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:83)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.getAdvicesAndAdvisorsForBean(AbstractAdvisorAutoProxyCreator.java:66)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.AbstractAutoProxyCreator.postProcessAfterInitialization(AbstractAutoProxyCreator.java:296)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsAfterInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:313)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1176)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:427)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:249)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:155)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:246)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:160)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:285)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:352)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:245)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:188)  
> > > at  
> > > org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)  
> > > at  
> > > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.contextListenerStart(StandardContext.java:4750)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.contextListenerStart(WebModule.java:550)  
> > > at  
> > > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:5366)  
> > > at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:498)  
> > > at  
> > > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:917)  
> > > at  
> > > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:901)  
> > > at  
> > > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:733)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:2018)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:1669)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.enterprise.web.WebApplication.start(WebApplication.java:109)  
> > > at  
> > > org.glassfish.internal.data.EngineRef.start(EngineRef.java:130)  
> > > at  
> > > org.glassfish.internal.data.ModuleInfo.start(ModuleInfo.java:269)  
> > > at  
> > > org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationInfo.start(ApplicationInfo.java:301)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:461)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLoaderService.processApplication(ApplicationLoaderService.java:375)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLoaderService.postConstruct(ApplicationLoaderService.java:219)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractCreatorImpl.inject(AbstractCreatorImpl.java:131)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.hk2.component.ConstructorCreator.initialize(ConstructorCreator.java:91)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractCreatorImpl.get(AbstractCreatorImpl.java:82)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.hk2.component.SingletonInhabitant.get(SingletonInhabitant.java:67)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.hk2.component.EventPublishingInhabitant.get(EventPublishingInhabitant.java:139)  
> > > at  
> > > com.sun.hk2.component.AbstractInhabitantImpl.get(AbstractInhabitantImpl.java:78)
> > > 
> > > This is the contect file that I'm using. Its a file that will be added  
> > > to a 'main' spring.xml:
> > > 
> > > \<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?\>
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > <!-- util:map id="esproperties">
> > > <entry key="cluster.name" value="es_neal" />
> > > </util:map -->
> > > 
> > > <bean id="esClient" 
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > 
> > > class="fr.pilato.spring.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchTransportClientFactoryBean"
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > <!-- If ElasticsearchTransportClientFactoryBean -->
> > > <property name="esNodes">
> > > <list>
> > > <value>com.sg.neal1:9300</value>
> > > <value>com.sg.neal2:9300</value>
> > > </list>
> > > </property>
> > > </bean>  
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > 
> > > Heres the list of spring jars i have in my lib/  
> > > spring-agent.jar  
> > > spring-aspects.jar  
> > > spring-elasticsearch-0.2.0.jar  
> > > spring.jar  
> > > spring-ldap-1.2-RC1.jar  
> > > spring-mock.jar  
> > > xbean-spring-2.8.jar
> > > 
> > > based on the MANIFEST.MF of the jars, I'm using Spring-Version: 2.0.7
> > > 
> > > Any ideas how I can resolve the exception?
> > > 
> > > TIA  
> > > Neal
> > > 
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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spring-elasticsearch-java-lang-reflect-malformedparameterizedtypeexception-when-trying-to-inject-esclient-into-spring-bean/13532/6 "2017-07-06T02:16:45Z")

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