Getting @Configurable to work

[ctassoni]

I tried using the @Configurable annotation in the Spring petclinic example, but it's not working for me.

In application-context-jdbc.xml, I added these lines:
<context:annotation-config />
<context:spring-configured />
<context:load-time-weaver />

In petclinic-servlet.xml I added component scanning of the validation package, because my configurable class is in that package. So now my component-scan snippets are:

<!--Was already there -->
<context:component-scan base-package="org.springframework.samples.petclinic.web "/>
<!-- New -->
<context:component-scan base-package="org.springframework.samples.petclinic.val idation" />

(Notes: 1) For some reason 'validation' is formatted here so that there's a separation between the 'l' and the 'i', at least when viewed on my browser. That's not the case in the actual applicationContext. 2) I decided not to simply scan org.springframework.samples because that caused errors when the HibernateClinic expects a SessionFactory to be autowired, and I'm using the jdbc version of the petclinic for now.)


I attempted to make OwnerValidator configurable. Here's the relevant code:

@Configurable(dependencyCheck=true)
public class OwnerValidator {

private Clinic clinic;

@Autowired
public void setClinic(Clinic clinic){
System.out.println("Autowiring worked.");
this.clinic = clinic;
System.out.println("Value of clinic is " + clinic);
}

Finally, I ran Tomcat from Eclipse, adding -javaagent:C:\spring-agent.jar to the end of the jvm argument string.

Result: The Clinic was never autowired into the OwnerValidator.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[juk]

Here is a working example, hope it helps.

@Configurable
public class Robot {

   private Service;	

   setService(Service service) {
	// impl
   }
}

<aop:spring-configured/>

<bean class="br.com.xxx.Robot" lazy-init="true" scope="prototype" depends-on="org.springframework.beans.factory.aspectj.AnnotationBeanConfigurerAspect">
     <property name="service"     ref="service" />
</bean>

[ctassoni]

When I try adding <aop:spring-configured/> I get this exception on startup.

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.2.4.c: The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'aop:spring-configured'.

Maybe there's some other part of your applicationContext that makes this work. Here's the xml header I'm using:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
Application context definition for PetClinic on JDBC.
-->
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schem...ng-aop-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schem...-beans-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schem...ontext-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schem...ng-jee-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.5.xsd">

[juk]

http://static.springframework.org/sp...rence/aop.html

take a look at 6.8. Using AspectJ with Spring applications

[ctassoni]

... because it recomends <aop:spring-configured/> and, as I've mentioned in a previous post, that leads to this exception on startup:

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.2.4.c: The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'aop:spring-configured'.

[woodsd]

I hope you've already figured this out but you should reference the documentation for the version of Spring that you are using. In Spring 2.5 they moved spring-configured into the 'context' namespace.

http://static.springsource.org/sprin...rence/aop.html

Dustin