Spring DI – Autowired property is null in a REST service

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You were right!
It seems that the problem is that Jersey is totally unaware of Spring and instantiates its own object. In order to make Jersey aware of Spring object creations (through dependency injection) I had to integrate Spring + Jersey.

To integrate:

  1. Add maven dependencies

    <dependency>
    <groupId>com.sun.jersey.contribs</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-spring</artifactId>
    <version>1.17.1</version>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>

  2. Use SpringServlet for jersey-servlet in web.xml

    <servlet>
    <servlet-name>jersey-servlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>
        com.sun.jersey.spi.spring.container.servlet.SpringServlet
    </servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

Now the @Autowired works properly and the object is not null anymore.

I’m a little bit confused about the exclusions I have to use in maven when using jersey-spring dependency, but that’s another issue 🙂

Thank you!

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