diff --git a/spring-batch-samples/.springBeans b/spring-batch-samples/.springBeans
index 47c28fb5e..4254475e1 100644
--- a/spring-batch-samples/.springBeans
+++ b/spring-batch-samples/.springBeans
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 		<config>src/main/resources/jobs/ibatisJob.xml</config>
 		<config>src/main/resources/jobs/compositeProcessorSampleJob.xml</config>
 		<config>src/main/resources/jobs/footballJob.xml</config>
-		<config>src/main/resources/beanRefContext.xml</config>
 		<config>src/main/resources/jobs/delegatingJob.xml</config>
 		<config>src/main/resources/jobs/parallelJob.xml</config>
 		<config>src/main/resources/jobs/retrySample.xml</config>
diff --git a/spring-batch-samples/src/main/resources/beanRefContext.xml b/spring-batch-samples/src/main/resources/beanRefContext.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index c78aaabc1..000000000
--- a/spring-batch-samples/src/main/resources/beanRefContext.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd">
-
-	<bean id="batchExecutionEnvironment" class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext">
-		<constructor-arg>
-			<value>simple-container-definition.xml</value>
-		</constructor-arg>
-	</bean>
-
-</beans>
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