Question

I am having trouble injecting a service into a custom tag I created:

@Configurable
public MyTag extends BodyTagSupport{

 @Autowired
 private MyService service;

 @Override
 public int doStartTag(){
 ......
  service.callServiceMethod(); // service is null
 ....
 }
 .......
}

Is there a way to inject beans using @Configurable in Custom Tags? I do not want to use following approach to inject beans:

 ServletContext sc = ((PageContext) getJspContext()).getServletContext();
 ApplicationContext context = 
   WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(sc);

Answer 1

@Configurable requires Compile time or load time weaving using AspectJ to be enabled. It will not work with normal Spring AOP, can you please confirm your project uses AspectJ.