Hard time getting Spring working with WS'.

[Dave Brown]

Hi All,

Hoping someone maybe able to help here as I'm beginning to get pretty stumped..

I have an already nicely 'autowired' j2ee application with spring 2.5.6, service layer and a DAO layer and am trying to create a JAX-WS based webservice.

Well even the webservice is ok, until I try and use my Servicelayer objects within it, in which case they are not being automatically propagated via Spring.

I have my webservice defined as follows...

@Service("clientAuthenticator")
@WebService(serviceName="ClientAuthenticator")
public class ClientAuthenticator extends SpringBeanAutowiringSupport
    @Autowired
    private ClientManager clientManager;
.......

I am trying to extend the autowiring support as that appears to be the way that Spring allows you to use Autowiring within webservices. I also have the 'Service' annotation there as without that Spring doesn't autowire my Tests(abstractJpaTests).

I have none of the beans defined in applicationContext.xml as they are all, up untill now automatically taken care of using context:component-scan

So please if anyone can give me a hint as to why when deployed (And Spring IS definately initialised) that the autowiring isnt taking place then I would very much appreciate it.

Thanks