NullPointer Exception accesing a variable who should be injected by Spring

[craicfinder]

Hi all,

I'm trying to construct my Services layer to access model.
When I call a service's method to get something contained on DB, I get the following exception:

Stacktraces
java.lang.NullPointerException

    services.Services.sess(Services.java:23)
    services.Services.getUsers(Services.java:32)
    actions.access.Login.execute(Login.java:17)
...

Services.java code:

package services;

import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import data.*;

import java.util.List;

// This class is the business services tier in the application.
// @Transactional is needed so that a Hibernate transaction is set up,
//  otherwise updates won't have an affect
@Transactional
public class Services {
	// So Spring can inject the session factory
	SessionFactory sessionFactory;
	public void setSessionFactory(SessionFactory value) {
		sessionFactory = value;
	}

	// Shortcut for sessionFactory.getCurrentSession()
	public Session sess() {
		return sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
	}

	public Webuser getEventByNickname(String nickname) {
		return (Webuser) sess().load(Webuser.class, nickname);
	}
	
	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	public List<Webuser> getUsers() {
		return sess().createQuery("from Webuser").list();
	}
}

Exception is raised on sessionFactory.getCurrentSession() call, in sess() method. So sessionFactory is null, but it supossed Spring had to injects the value earlier. It makes me think I'm doing something wrong.

That's my applicationConfig.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:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
       xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx 
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop 
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd">

	<!-- The singleton hibernate session factory -->
	<bean id="sessionFactory" scope="singleton"
		class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
		<property name="configLocation" value="classpath:hibernate.cfg.xml" />
	</bean>

    <!-- Spring's hibernate transaction manager, in charge of making hibernate sessions/txns -->
	<bean id="transactionManager"
		class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
		<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
	</bean>

    <!-- So classes/functions with @Transactional get a hibernate txn -->
	<tx:annotation-driven />
	
	<!-- Inject my business services class to the actions -->
	<bean id="services" class="services.Services" scope="singleton">
		<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
	</bean>
	
</beans>

And my hibernate.cfg.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN" "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-configuration>

	<session-factory>
	
		<!-- Database connection settings -->
		<property name="connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
		<property name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/........</property>
		<property name="connection.username">.....</property>
		<property name="connection.password">.......</property>
		<property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
	
		<!--
		Enable c3p0 connection pooling, because hibernate pooling is not
		prod-ready. Apparently connection.provider_class is needed in
		hibernate 3+
		-->
		<property name="connection.provider_class">org.hibernate.connection.C3P0ConnectionProvider</property>
		<property name="c3p0.max_size">100</property>
		<property name="c3p0.min_size">1</property>
		<property name="c3p0.idle_test_period">30</property>
	
		<!-- Echo all executed SQL to stdout for debugging -->
		<property name="show_sql">true</property>
		
		<!-- All the entity classes for hibernate to check for annotations here -->
		<mapping class="data........." />
		<mapping class="data........." />

	</session-factory>

</hibernate-configuration>

If you need more information to help me to solve the problem, please don't hesitate to ask for it.

Thanks in advance

[Marten Deinum]

My guess you are constructing you rown instance inside your logni action...

[craicfinder]

You are absolutely right

Thanks a million!