I'm attempting to implement a delegate Service provider by overriding the bean definition for the original service with my delegate Service. However, as the name would imply, the delegate Service needs a reference to the original service to delegate calls to.

I'm having trouble figuring out how to override the bean definition while using the original bean def without running into a circular reference issue.

For example:

<!-- Original service def in spring-context.xml -->
<bean id="service" class="com.mycompany.Service"/>

<!-- Overridden definition in spring-plugin-context.xml -->
<bean id="service" class="com.mycompany.DelegatedService"/>
    <constructor-arg ref="service"/>
</bean>

Is this possible?