Why is autowiring working in JUnit test but not in bean?

[Dave Alvarado]

Hi,

I'm using Spring 3.0.5. I'm running a JUnit test to test db connectivity. I have

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations={"daos.xml"})
public class TestDB {

	@Autowired
	@Qualifier("sqlClient")
	private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

and when I run the JUnit test, the "sessionFactory" is configured fine. However, another class that is invoked in the JUnit test has an identical "sessionFactory" reference, which remains null ...

@Repository("webLeadsDAO")
public class WebLeadsDAOImpl implements WebLeadsDAO {

	@Autowired
	@Qualifier("sqlClient")
	private static SessionFactory sessionFactory;

This doesn't happen when I run the real application. Any ideas why one autowiring is working and the other isn't connecting at all? When I run my application outside of the JUnit environment, the autowiring within the "WebLeadsDAOImpl" class gets connected just fine.

Thanks, - Dave

[Boris Romashov]

Why in WebLeadsDAOImpl the field SessionFactory is static?
Try to make it an instance-method.