in the component:

property name="emailService" required="true" type="EmailService" ;

in coldspring.xml:

<bean id="appService" class="components.services.AppService" singleton="true">

<property name="appConfig">

<ref bean="appConfig"/>

</property>

<property name="appGateway">

<ref bean="appGateway"/>

</property>

<property name="emailService">

<ref bean="emailService"/>

</property>

</bean>

@oranuf I'm a bit shocked anyone is still using ColdSpring, let alone trying to use it with FW/1 -- but a StackOverflowError sure sounds like a circular dependency to me...

The wonders of legacy code 😉

Did you find the circular dependency?

no, i ended up having to work around the problem altogether for now (deadline).