diff --git a/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/config/xml/AbstractIntegrationNamespaceHandler.java b/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/config/xml/AbstractIntegrationNamespaceHandler.java
index dec25a6745..0375e2fb4d 100644
--- a/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/config/xml/AbstractIntegrationNamespaceHandler.java
+++ b/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/config/xml/AbstractIntegrationNamespaceHandler.java
@@ -18,8 +18,10 @@ package org.springframework.integration.config.xml;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.LinkedList;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
 
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
@@ -77,6 +79,8 @@ public abstract class AbstractIntegrationNamespaceHandler implements NamespaceHa
 
 	private final NamespaceHandlerDelegate delegate = new NamespaceHandlerDelegate();
 
+	private static final Set<Integer> registriesProcessed = new HashSet<Integer>();
+
 
 	@Override
 	public final BeanDefinition parse(Element element, ParserContext parserContext) {
@@ -199,6 +203,8 @@ public abstract class AbstractIntegrationNamespaceHandler implements NamespaceHa
 	}
 
 	private void registerBuiltInBeans(ParserContext parserContext) {
+		int registryId = System.identityHashCode(parserContext.getRegistry());
+
 		String jsonPathBeanName = "jsonPath";
 		boolean alreadyRegistered = false;
 		if (parserContext.getRegistry() instanceof ListableBeanFactory) {
@@ -207,7 +213,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractIntegrationNamespaceHandler implements NamespaceHa
 		else {
 			alreadyRegistered = parserContext.getRegistry().isBeanNameInUse(jsonPathBeanName);
 		}
-		if (!alreadyRegistered) {
+		if (!alreadyRegistered && !registriesProcessed.contains(registryId)) {
 			Class<?> jsonPathClass = null;
 			try {
 				jsonPathClass = ClassUtils.forName("com.jayway.jsonpath.JsonPath", parserContext.getReaderContext().getBeanClassLoader());
@@ -230,7 +236,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractIntegrationNamespaceHandler implements NamespaceHa
 		else {
 			alreadyRegistered = parserContext.getRegistry().isBeanNameInUse(xpathBeanName);
 		}
-		if (!alreadyRegistered) {
+		if (!alreadyRegistered && !registriesProcessed.contains(registryId)) {
 			Class<?> xpathClass = null;
 			try {
 				xpathClass = ClassUtils.forName(IntegrationNamespaceUtils.BASE_PACKAGE + ".xml.xpath.XPathUtils",
@@ -246,6 +252,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractIntegrationNamespaceHandler implements NamespaceHa
 			}
 		}
 
+		registriesProcessed.add(registryId);
 
 		this.doRegisterBuiltInBeans(parserContext);
 	}
diff --git a/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/IntegrationNamespaceHandlerTests.java b/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/IntegrationNamespaceHandlerTests.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a82b24110f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/IntegrationNamespaceHandlerTests.java
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2014 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.integration.config;
+
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.mockito.Mockito;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+
+import org.springframework.beans.DirectFieldAccessor;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionReader;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.NamespaceHandler;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.ParserContext;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlReaderContext;
+import org.springframework.context.support.GenericApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.integration.config.xml.IntegrationNamespaceHandler;
+import org.springframework.integration.test.util.TestUtils;
+
+/**
+ * @author Artem Bilan
+ * @since 3.0
+ */
+public class IntegrationNamespaceHandlerTests {
+
+	@Test
+	public void testRegisterBuiltInBeansOnlyOnce() {
+		NamespaceHandler namespaceHandler = new IntegrationNamespaceHandler();
+
+		Log log = Mockito.spy(TestUtils.getPropertyValue(namespaceHandler, "logger", Log.class));
+		DirectFieldAccessor dfa = new DirectFieldAccessor(namespaceHandler);
+		dfa.setPropertyValue("logger", log);
+
+		GenericApplicationContext testApplicationContext = TestUtils.createTestApplicationContext();
+
+		XmlReaderContext readerContext = Mockito.mock(XmlReaderContext.class);
+		BeanDefinitionReader beanDefinitionReader = Mockito.mock(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.class);
+		DirectFieldAccessor bDefReaderDfa = new DirectFieldAccessor(beanDefinitionReader);
+		bDefReaderDfa.setPropertyValue("registry", testApplicationContext);
+
+		DirectFieldAccessor readerContextDfa = new DirectFieldAccessor(readerContext);
+		readerContextDfa.setPropertyValue("reader", beanDefinitionReader);
+
+		Element element = Mockito.mock(Element.class);
+		Mockito.when(element.getAttributeNS("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance", "schemaLocation"))
+				.thenReturn("http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/spring-integration.xsd");
+		Document document = Mockito.mock(Document.class);
+		Mockito.when(element.getOwnerDocument()).thenReturn(document);
+		Mockito.when(document.getDocumentElement()).thenReturn(element);
+
+
+		for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
+			try {
+				namespaceHandler.parse(element, new ParserContext(readerContext, null));
+			}
+			catch (NullPointerException e) {
+				//ignore it as it is out of scope of this test.
+			}
+		}
+
+		Mockito.verify(log).debug("SpEL function '#xpath' isn't registered: there is no spring-integration-xml.jar on the classpath.");
+	}
+
+}