diff --git a/core/api.cfc b/core/api.cfc
index 71e900b6..69d111bd 100644
--- a/core/api.cfc
+++ b/core/api.cfc
@@ -430,8 +430,17 @@
 	<cffunction name="getBeanListFromColdSpring" access="private" output="false" returntype="string">
 		<cfset var local = StructNew() />
 		<cfset local.beans = application._taffy.externalBeanFactory.getBeanDefinitionList() />
+		<cfset local.beanList = "" />
+		
 		<cfloop collection="#local.beans#" item="local.beanName">
-			<cfif local.beans[local.beanName].instanceOf('taffy.core.resource')>
+			<!---
+				Can't call instanceOf() method on beans generated by factories; there is no
+				class property on factory-generated beans, and it throws an error in ColdSpring 1.2.
+				Temporary patch is to skip those beans, but we'd really either want to examine the
+				return type metadata on the factory method or find some other way to determine if
+				this is a Taffy bean.
+			 --->
+			<cfif local.beans[local.beanName].getBeanClass() NEQ "" and local.beans[local.beanName].instanceOf('taffy.core.resource')>
 				<cfset local.beanList = listAppend(local.beanList, local.beanName) />
 			</cfif>
 		</cfloop>
@@ -440,7 +449,7 @@
 
 	<cffunction name="inspectMimeTypes" access="private" output="false" returntype="void">
 		<cfargument name="customClassDotPath" type="string" required="true" hint="dot-notation path of representation class" />
-		<cfif application._taffy.factory.beanExists(arguments.customClassDotPath)>
+		<cfif application._taffy.factory.containsBean(arguments.customClassDotPath)>
 			<cfset _recurse_inspectMimeTypes(getMetadata(application._taffy.factory.getBean(arguments.customClassDotPath))) />
 		<cfelse>
 			<cfset _recurse_inspectMimeTypes(getComponentMetadata(arguments.customClassDotPath)) />
diff --git a/core/factory.cfc b/core/factory.cfc
index 826d27bb..ce2b5e52 100644
--- a/core/factory.cfc
+++ b/core/factory.cfc
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 		function init(){
 			return this;
 		}
+		// Proxy to beanExists to provide similar interface to ColdSpring
+		function containsBean(beanName){
+			return beanExists(arguments.beanName);
+		}
 		function beanExists(beanName){
 			if (structKeyExists(this.beans, arguments.beanName)){
 				return true;
diff --git a/core/resource.cfc b/core/resource.cfc
index 340cb3d3..40c85071 100644
--- a/core/resource.cfc
+++ b/core/resource.cfc
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 	--->
 	<cffunction name="getRepInstance" access="private" output="false">
 		<cfargument name="repClass" type="string" />
-		<cfif application._taffy.factory.beanExists(arguments.repClass)>
+		<cfif application._taffy.factory.containsBean(arguments.repClass)>
 			<cfreturn application._taffy.factory.getBean(arguments.repClass) />
 		<cfelse>
 			<cfreturn createObject("component", arguments.repClass) />