Referencing an annotated bean from a XML one

[selliott1]

I can't see why this shouldln't be possible but I am always getting a null reference.

Anyway.
One Service configured with the @Service annotation and all other annotated beans successfully get a reference using the @Autowired annotation.

We also have some older beans configured in XML (currently moving to annotations but doing a few at a time) and this bean needs to reference the first service bean above.

So, is this possible? I really can't see why it shouldn't, but no matter what I do the reference to the first bean in the second is always null.

If it is possible, I will continue banging my head to find whats wrong. But thought I'd ask just in case.

Cheers

[Marten Deinum]

Should be no problem at all, as long as you use the correct name in the reference and make sure it references the correct name.

[rohan123]

Spring support both mixing of xml and annotations, may be you are not pointing to correct one, Check DI first