Our environment is constricted such that beanRefContext.xml MUST reside under a directory within our jar. Unfortunately, this creates the problem that the default getInstance method of ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator does not find our xml configuration.

This can EASILY be fixed by adding a command line VM arg (eg. -Dbean.ref.context.location=...) and changing the implementationm of the default constructor for BatchCommandLineLauncher from:

public BatchCommandLineLauncher() {
beanFactoryLocator = ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance();
}

To:
public BatchCommandLineLauncher() {
                                          String beanRefContextLocation = System.getProperty("bean.ref.context.location");

beanFactoryLocator = ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance( beanRefContextLocation );
}

Or something similar. Please fix ASAP.