Question

How can I disable Dependency Injection in Glassfish so that it doesn’t conflict with spring?

Is it possible to configure in glassfish-web.xml

Answer 1

I finally found a solution. It is possible to inject an EntityManager in Spring without resorting to @PersistenceContext. There is a Spring factorybean to create a shared EntityManager. Given an Entity Manager Factory:

<bean id="entityManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.SharedEntityManagerBean">
    <property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
</bean>
<bean id="myJpaFacade" class="com.example.MyJpaFacade">
    <property name="entityManager" ref="entityManager" />
</bean>

Now I can remove the @PersistenceContext annotation from MyJpaFacade so that Glassfish doesn’t try to lookup and inject an entity manager into the entityManager property.