Marten Deinum opened SPR-5130 and commented
From some recent forum threads (and also some historical) people have a problem with getting the namespace support. Especially as where they are applied. We now completly hide the fact that tx:annotation-driven or context:component-scan is a Bean(Factory)PostProcessor and operates only on the BeanFactory they are defined in. People expect the tx:annotation-driven specified in the root context to be applied to the web context (or vice versa).
So we might need to clarify this in the documentation.
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