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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"

  xsi:schemaLocation="

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

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

    ">

    <!--

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

          default service configuration (not including persistence.xml configuration)

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

     -->

	<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">

      <context:exclude-filter type="regex" expression="eu\.etaxonomy\.cdm\.database\.PersistentTermInitializer"/>

    </context:component-scan>

    <!-- 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"/>

    <!-- equips a new and empty database with the initial set of meta data and admin user   -->

    <bean id="firstDataInserter" class="eu.etaxonomy.cdm.api.application.FirstDataInserter" />

    <bean id="cdmRepository" class="eu.etaxonomy.cdm.api.application.CdmRepository" />

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

    <bean id="tableGeneratorGlobalOverride"

        class="eu.etaxonomy.cdm.persistence.hibernate.TableGeneratorGlobalOverride">

        <property name="properties">

            <props>

                <!--

                    globally overriding id generation settings see: eu.etaxonomy.cdm.persistence.hibernate.TableGenerator

                 -->

                <prop key="optimizer">none</prop>

                <prop key="initial_value">5000</prop><!-- must be higher than any term id in TermsDataSet.xml -->

            </props>

        </property>

    </bean>

    <bean id="validatorFactory" class="org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.LocalValidatorFactoryBean">

        <property name="mappingLocations">

            <set>

                <value>classpath:/eu/etaxonomy/cdm/validation/name/TaxonName-Constraints.xml</value>

            </set>

        </property>

    </bean>

</beans>