How to autowire a bean loaded by Hibernate?

Hi, I'm using Spring 3.1.0.RELEASE. One of my Hibernate classes (EventFeed) references a class (AbstractEventParser ), in which I'd like to get access to a service, loaded by Spring. However, my autowiring is failing (the service is always null). I'm trying ...

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@Configurable
public abstract class AbstractEventParser {

        @Autowired
        protected NetUtilsService netUtilsService;

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And my service class has

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@Service("netUtilsService")
public final class NetUtilsServiceImpl implements NetUtilsService {

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but the netUtilsService member field is always null in the AbstractEventParser class above. What do I have to do to successfully autowire the field in the "AbstractEventParser" class? I have verified that my applicationContext.xml scans the class ...

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        <mvc:annotation-driven />
        <context:component-scan base-package="com.myco.myproject" />

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Thanks, - Dave

I suggest a read of the reference guide. Basically, as you already noticed, your @Configurable is pretty much useless, there is nothing which knows what to do with that annotation. You need to add a context:spring-configured which enables the @Configurable, depending on your environment you need additional configuration, I suggest a read of the reference guide.

I was trying to follow the instructions here -- http://static.springsource.org/sprin...rence/aop.html, but before I go crazy, is there another way I should be doing this that is simpler to configure than the aspect-oriented angle?

No... As you need it to be woven in the class. You want injection when an object is constructed and outside of spring and as such you need additional capabilities.