diff --git a/spring-exceptions/src/main/java/org/baeldung/ex/beancreationexception/cause9/BeanA.java b/spring-exceptions/src/main/java/org/baeldung/ex/beancreationexception/cause9/BeanA.java
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+++ b/spring-exceptions/src/main/java/org/baeldung/ex/beancreationexception/cause9/BeanA.java
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+package org.baeldung.ex.beancreationexception.cause9;
+
+public abstract class BeanA implements IBeanA {
+    //
+}
diff --git a/spring-exceptions/src/main/java/org/baeldung/ex/beancreationexception/cause9/BeanB.java b/spring-exceptions/src/main/java/org/baeldung/ex/beancreationexception/cause9/BeanB.java
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+++ b/spring-exceptions/src/main/java/org/baeldung/ex/beancreationexception/cause9/BeanB.java
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+package org.baeldung.ex.beancreationexception.cause9;
+
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
+
+@Component
+public class BeanB {
+    //
+}
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diff --git a/spring-exceptions/src/main/java/org/baeldung/ex/beancreationexception/cause9/IBeanA.java b/spring-exceptions/src/main/java/org/baeldung/ex/beancreationexception/cause9/IBeanA.java
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+++ b/spring-exceptions/src/main/java/org/baeldung/ex/beancreationexception/cause9/IBeanA.java
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+package org.baeldung.ex.beancreationexception.cause9;
+
+public interface IBeanA {
+    //
+}
diff --git a/spring-exceptions/src/main/java/org/baeldung/ex/beancreationexception/spring/Cause9ContextWithJavaConfig.java b/spring-exceptions/src/main/java/org/baeldung/ex/beancreationexception/spring/Cause9ContextWithJavaConfig.java
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+++ b/spring-exceptions/src/main/java/org/baeldung/ex/beancreationexception/spring/Cause9ContextWithJavaConfig.java
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+package org.baeldung.ex.beancreationexception.spring;
+
+import org.baeldung.ex.beancreationexception.cause9.BeanB;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.ImportResource;
+
+@Configuration
+@ComponentScan("org.baeldung.ex.beancreationexception.cause9")
+@ImportResource("classpath:beancreationexception_cause9.xml")
+public class Cause9ContextWithJavaConfig {
+    @Autowired
+    BeanFactory beanFactory;
+
+    public Cause9ContextWithJavaConfig() {
+        super();
+    }
+
+    // beans
+
+    @Bean
+    public BeanB beanB() {
+        beanFactory.getBean("beanA");
+        return new BeanB();
+    }
+
+}
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diff --git a/spring-exceptions/src/main/resources/beancreationexception_cause9.xml b/spring-exceptions/src/main/resources/beancreationexception_cause9.xml
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+++ b/spring-exceptions/src/main/resources/beancreationexception_cause9.xml
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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:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="
+      http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
+      http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.2.xsd
+      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd">
+
+    <bean id="beanA" abstract="true" class="org.baeldung.ex.beancreationexception.cause9.BeanA" />
+
+</beans>
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diff --git a/spring-exceptions/src/test/java/org/baeldung/ex/beancreationexception/Cause9BeanCreationExceptionIntegrationTest.java b/spring-exceptions/src/test/java/org/baeldung/ex/beancreationexception/Cause9BeanCreationExceptionIntegrationTest.java
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index 0000000000..ad1ba5f2f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-exceptions/src/test/java/org/baeldung/ex/beancreationexception/Cause9BeanCreationExceptionIntegrationTest.java
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+package org.baeldung.ex.beancreationexception;
+
+import org.baeldung.ex.beancreationexception.spring.Cause9ContextWithJavaConfig;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
+import org.springframework.test.context.support.AnnotationConfigContextLoader;
+
+@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
+@ContextConfiguration(classes = { Cause9ContextWithJavaConfig.class }, loader = AnnotationConfigContextLoader.class)
+public class Cause9BeanCreationExceptionIntegrationTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public final void givenContextIsInitialized_thenNoException() {
+        //
+    }
+
+}