Hi, I discovered the problem, I had not specified the ContextLoader listener for Spring. I thought that I didn't have to have that enabled!
When adding the following to my web.xml everything works: <context-param> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext*.xml</param-value> </context-param> <listener> <listener-class> org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener </listener-class> </listener> Does anyone know if the Spring stuff is required by Shale, or have I introduced this dependency some way (I had the shale-spring.jar in the lib folder). Cheers, Mikael