title: Spring - Weird Error in Bean Creation
body: <p>Any idea why I am getting this exception?</p>
  
  <pre><code>Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'myService' defined in class path resource [context.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.TypeMismatchException: Failed to convert property value of type [$Proxy54 implementing org.springframework.aop.SpringProxy,org.springframework.aop.framework.Advised,net.sf.cglib.proxy.Factory,org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean] to required type [com.mycompany.service.dao.MyDAO] for property 'myDAO'; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot convert value of type [$Proxy54 implementing org.springframework.aop.SpringProxy,org.springframework.aop.framework.Advised,net.sf.cglib.proxy.Factory,org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean] to required type [com.mycompany.service.dao.MyDAO] for property 'myDAO': no matching editors or conversion strategy found
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:480)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:380)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:264)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:261)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:185)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:164)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.findAutowireCandidates(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:671)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:610)
      at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredMethodElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:499)
      ... 36 more
  Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot convert value of type [$Proxy54 implementing org.springframework.aop.SpringProxy,org.springframework.aop.framework.Advised,net.sf.cglib.proxy.Factory,org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean] to required type [com.mycompany.service.dao.MyDAO] for property 'myDAO': no matching editors or conversion strategy found
      at org.springframework.beans.TypeConverterDelegate.convertIfNecessary(TypeConverterDelegate.java:231)
      at org.springframework.beans.TypeConverterDelegate.convertIfNecessary(TypeConverterDelegate.java:138)
      at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.convertForProperty(BeanWrapperImpl.java:386)
  ... 62 more
  </code></pre>