NoSuchBeanDefinitionException since Spring 3.1.3 - exception

Question

I played around with the Spring version in my application today. I started out at Spring 3.1.1 and when I moved to Spring 3.1.3 my application began throwing a NoSuchBeanDefinitionException during startup.
org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No
matching bean of type
[nl.my.product.properties.Properties] found for
dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire
candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {}
I configured the Properties bean in the application context like this:
<!-- Gather properties from environment.properties in a map -->
<bean id="systemProperties" class="nl.my.product.properties.Properties">
<property name="propertyMap">
<map>
<entry key="email.from.address" value="${email.from.address}"/>
<entry key="site.host" value="${site.host}"/>
<entry key="site.protocol" value="${site.protocol}"/>
...
</map>
</property>
</bean>
And I autowired the bean into many of my controllers and services, like this:
#Autowired
public ArticleController(ArticleService articleService, PageBlockService pageBlockService, Properties systemProperties) {
this.articleService = articleService;
this.pageBlockService = pageBlockService;
this.properties = systemProperties;
}
Any clue as to why Spring is unable to find my bean since Spring 3.1.3? I tried moving the Properties bean to a package to was not also scanned for components, but that doesn't solve the problem.
When I annotate the Properties bean with #Component Spring does pick it up, but then the properties map is empty.

Answer 1

It started working when I removed the id="systemProperties" from the bean definition