Injecting Sring Bean in EJB 3.0 Stateless Bean WAS 7.0

[Marius Popescu]

Hello,
I am using EJB 3.0 on WAS and Spring MVC.
I have maneged to inject a Stateless bean into a @Controller spring bean.
I want to inject some spring beans in a stateless bean. One is the ldapTemplate and the other one is
simpleJdbcTemplate.

I have found SpringBeanAutowiringInterceptor.class and configured beanRefContext.xml.
I am newbie in Spring, and it took me a while . Using this method did not work so I believed it was a websphere
probleme, and I used the following to retrieve my bean:

@PostConstruct
	protected void afterInit() {
		ClassPathXmlApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("classpath*:app-servlet.xml");
		ldapTemplate = (LdapTemplate)context.getBean("ldapTemplate"); 
		log.debug("simpleJdbcTemplate bean inserted");
	}

The error I got was :No bean named 'ldapTemplate' is defined so I remembered that
the error with using the method with the interceptor was No bean named 'ldapTemplate' is defined ...
and realized something else is wrong, I think I am loosing my beans ...

I do not know how Spring instantiates the beans(I thought it was doing this only at the start of the application):
a) When starting the application I see in my log :
... loadBeanDefinitions Loading XML bean definitions from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/app-servlet.xml]
....
DefaultListableBeanFactory@5eeb5eeb: defining beans defining beans [org.springframework.context.annotation.internalCon figurationAnnotationProcessor, ...ldapTemplate, ...

b) After entering the ejb method :
...prepareRefresh Refreshing org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlAp plicationContext
...loadBeanDefinitions Loading XML bean definitions from URL [file:/D:/xxx/EJB_30_Framework/ejbModule/beanRefContext.xml]
...DefaultListableBeanFactory@62456245: defining beans []; root of factory hierarchy

STACK TRACE :

EJB threw an unexpected (non-declared) exception during invocation of method "searchADUser". Exception data: javax.ejb.EJBException: session bean post construct failure; nested exception is: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefini tionException: No bean named 'ldapTemplate' is defined

So what happends after Spring parses the beanRefContext.xml file ?
My beans are declared in the file app-servlet.xml, should it not keep my current app context ?

<?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"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd  
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

	<!-- This context is loaded by type and not by name -->
	<bean id="contextFromBeanRef.context" class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext">
		<constructor-arg value="classpath*:app-servlet.xml" />
	</bean>
</beans>

[Marius Popescu]

I solved the problem,

The app-servlet.xml file must be in the same folder with beanRefContext.xml.
I've made another xml file, added only the beans that the EJBs are using and it works.

Marius