Does Autowiring work in Java EE 6 and JBoss 7?

[JavaGeek_Boston]

Hello All,
I am trying to port our application to JBoss 7 and am having issues getting Spring 2.5 autowiring working. I found that if I declare my bean manually in XML, I can see them being registered correctly. If I rely on component-scan, Spring says it's initializing Spring, but not my beans. Any tips on debugging this?

Thanks in advance,
Steven

PS - I just tested this in Spring 3.0 and it works exactly as expected. However, the application I am porting is huge and moving to Spring 3.0 would be a non-trivial investment, so we'd love to get it working in 2.5 for now.

Here's my Spring config - applicationContext.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd">
	<!-- Activates annotation-based bean configuration -->
	<context:annotation-config />
	<!-- Fails...never appears to be run. -->
	<context:component-scan base-package="com.mycompany" />
	<!-- Works when uncommented. -->
	<!-- <bean class="com.mycompany.ChatterBox"/> -->
</beans>

Here's my web.xml

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" version="3.0">

	<description>Our canary in a coal mine - Can we get Spring working?</description>
	<display-name>BareBones</display-name>
	<context-param>
		<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
		<param-value>classpath:/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
	</context-param>
	<listener>
		<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
	</listener>
	<listener>
		<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener</listener-class>
	</listener>
</web-app>

Here's the bean in question.

package com.mycompany;

import java.util.Date;

import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

/**
 *  Tracing class designed to output when constructed. 
 */
@Component
public class ChatterBox {
    private final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());

    public ChatterBox() {
        //we want this to be very visible and easy to read.
      logger.fatal("\n\n\n\n\nSingleton was constructed at " + new Date() + " (you should only see me once)\n\n\n\n");
        if(true){//to avoid compiler error, RuntimeException used to get indisputable proof this was run.
          throw new RuntimeException("Did I get run?");
        }
    }

    @PreDestroy
    protected void finalize2(){
        logger.warn("\n\nI was destroyed by @PreDestory on " + new Date() + "\n\n");
    }
}