Question

In my Spring Application, I have a bean defined in my xml as such:

<beans:bean id="tokenStore" class="com.myproject.core.security.RemoteTokenStore" />

I also have this class I created, and annotated with @Service:

com.myproject.core.service.CacheService

In my RemoteTokenStore.java file, if I try to Autowire CacheService like so:

@Autowired
private CacheService cacheService;

It is always null. How to I fix this?

Answer 1

Add this to your context xml file:

<context:component-scan base-package="com.myproject.core.security" />

Once this has been specified your annotations will be processed and your components will be identified by Spring.

If you haven’t already you will also need to include the spring-context dependency on your classpath and the context namespace in your application XML.

Reading this: http://www.mkyong.com/spring/spring-auto-scanning-components/ might help