Multiple SharedEntityManagerBeans and ApplicationContext.getBean issue - spring

Question

I have two databases which I want to access from my Spring application. I configured two SharedEntityManagerBean for both databases. Here is the config:
<jpa:repositories base-package="xxx" entity-manager-factory-ref="entityManagerFactory1" />
<jpa:repositories base-package="xxx" entity-manager-factory-ref="entityManagerFactory2" />
<tx:annotation-driven/>
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager"
id="transactionManager1">
<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory1" />
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource1" />
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager"
id="transactionManager2">
<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory2" />
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource2" />
</bean>
<bean id="entityManagerFactory1"
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean"
p:packagesToScan="xxxxxx"
....
</bean>
<bean id="entityManagerFactory2"
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean"
p:packagesToScan="xxxxx"
...
</bean>
<bean id="entityManager1" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.SharedEntityManagerBean" >
<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory1" />
</bean>
<bean id="entityManager2" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.SharedEntityManagerBean">
<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory2" />
</bean>
<bean id="dataSource1"
class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
...
</bean>
<bean id="dataSourceOntology"
class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
...
</bean>
I have two EntityLocators which are not managed by Spring that access entities in each of the corresponding databases. They look something like that:
public class SpringEntitiyLocator1 {
private EntityManager em;
public SpringEntitiyLocator1() {
}
private EntityManager getEM() {
if (em == null) {
ApplicationContext context = WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(RequestFactoryServlet.getThreadLocalServletContext());
SharedEntityManagerBean bean = context.getBean("entityManager1",SharedEntityManagerBean.class);
em = bean.getObject();
}
return em;
}
}
When I have only one SharedEntityManagerBean defined in my applicationContext the call to getBean() works fine. However once I have both SharedEntityManagerBeans defined I get the error:
Bean named 'x' must be of type [y], but was actually of type [$Proxy]
I read on SO that I should use cglib proxying by adding <aop:config proxy-target-class="true"/> to my application.xml.
Is that the best solution ?
When I add that line I get Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/aspectj/util/PartialOrder$PartialComparable errors.
Do I need aspectj for that?
EDIT:
In case I have only one SharedEntityManagerBean defined I can call getBean(SharedEntityManagerBean.class). This works fine.
I debugged the code and it seems that this call will call getBean("&entityManager1",SharedEntityManagerBean.class) (note &) .
However when I pass the name getBean("EntityManager1",SharedEntityManagerBean.class) I get a type cast exception.
Having both SharedEntityManagerBeans defined and call getBean without a name also causes an exception (can't find a bean with that name).
So my current workaround is to call: getBean("&entityManager1",SharedEntityManagerBean.class) and getBean("&entityManager2",SharedEntityManagerBean.class)
This works fine.

Answer 1

Ok apparently SharedEntityManagerBean is a FactoryBean and for that I have to add & before the bean name to retrieve the SharedEntityManagerBean.
Alternatively I could probably just call:
em = context.getBean("entityManager",EntityManager.class);
See here and here for reference.