[Building Sakai] Question about bean aliases in 2.7.x

[Jim Eng]

Has anybody else seen this problem?

Jim


On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Jim Eng wrote:

> In past sakai releases, one could supply a bean alias in a properties file like this:
> 
> org.sakaiproject.authz.api.GroupProvider=org.sakaiproject.authz.api.GroupProviderUnivOfMich
> 
> With that line in local.properties or sakai.properties, "org.sakaiproject.authz.api.GroupProvider" becomes an alias for "org.sakaiproject.authz.api.GroupProviderUnivOfMich" any place that a bean is referenced as "org.sakaiproject.authz.api.GroupProvider".  
> 
> That doesn't seem to work in sakai 2.7.x.  Does anyone know why?  Is this a change in sakai code? Or something in spring?  Or a side-effect of switching to JVM 1.6?  
> 
> Should this be considered a bug?  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jim