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

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

  xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"

  xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"

  xsi:schemaLocation="

    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.3.xsd

    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx https://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.3.xsd

    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context https://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.3.xsd

    http://www.springframework.org/schema/security https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-4.2.xsd"

    >

    <import resource="classpath:/eu/etaxonomy/cdm/persistence_security.xml"/>

    <!--

        ======================================================================

          default service configuration (same as in services.xml)

        ======================================================================

     -->

    <context:component-scan base-package="eu/etaxonomy/cdm/persistence">

        <context:exclude-filter type="regex" expression="eu\.etaxonomy\.cdm\.persistence\.dao\.hibernate\.taxon\.TaxonAlternativeSpellingSuggestionParser"/>

    </context:component-scan>

    <context:component-scan base-package="eu/etaxonomy/cdm/search" />

    <context:component-scan base-package="eu/etaxonomy/cdm/database"/>

    <!-- also find the implementation of ITaxonNodeComparator (otherwise it is not found by a component scan)  -->

    <bean name="taxonNodeByNameComparator" class="eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.taxon.TaxonNodeByNameComparator"/>

    <!-- find the implementation of UserHelper which is not covered by a component scan  -->

    <bean name="cdmUserHelper" class="eu.etaxonomy.cdm.api.utility.CdmUserHelper"/>

    <import resource="classpath:/eu/etaxonomy/cdm/services_security_base.xml"/>

</beans>