ConfigurationClassPostProcessor cannot enhance bean "refreshScope"

WARN [org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor] - 
<Cannot enhance @Configuration bean definition 'refreshScope' since its singleton instance has been
created too early. The typical cause is a non-static @Bean method with a 
BeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessor return type: Consider declaring such methods as 'static'.>

Seeing this with Spring 2.4.6. Recently upgraded from 1.0.4.RELEASE where this warning was non-apparent. Is this something to be concerned about?

[janlisse]

In our App which i would subsume under “sufficiently complex”, this is the ONLY warning that is logged during startup. Besides that you are right, the original question was a little bit different. Nevertheless i think it is a bad practice having WARN’s logged out that ought to be ignored. And finally there might be a reason why the Spring people introduced it and it might indicate improper usage.

[mmoayyed]

Turns out this isnt quite solved: I removed all traces of @RefreshScope from all @Configuration classes, and ran a global search to ensure. I still see the log warning message.