Spring does not find beans generated by annotations

Question

I want to retrieve from my spring context all beans that are of a certain class (or subclass). But this only detects beans that are specifically defined by xml. Beans that are defined by annotations, such as @Serviceare not detected here. (Although inside the app they are detected, initialized, and autowired perfectly).

GenericXmlApplicationContext ctx = new GenericXmlApplicationContext("*-context.xml");
Map<String, DataUpdater> beans = ctx.getBeansOfType(MyClass.class, true, true);
// why are beans missing?

Answer 1

Sorry, some stupid error... I was not properly loading my xml files, however beans were being instantiated as some background process was creating a parallel xml context with the correct files.