It shouldn't make any difference at all. I do the same thing but with the annotation @Component instead of @service and @autowired instead of @Inject.
The only reason I can think of that it would be null is if you don't have a matching UserDao that's in the spring context... are you sure you have that object in the spring context? On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:22 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a service that I've created using the Spring @Service annotation. > I am injecting Spring dependencies into the service using the @Inject > annotation. When I invoke my service I get a NullPointerException when > referencing the injected dependency (in this case a DAO). > > @Service("userServiceImpl-2012-02-01") > @WebService(serviceName = "UserService", > name = "UserServicePort", > portName = "UserServicePort", > targetNamespace = " > http://www.thomsonreuters.com/services/userservice/2012-02-01";) > public class UserServiceImpl implements UserService { > > @Inject > private UserDAO userDAO; > > public UserCollectionResponse findUserByName(String userName) { > Collection<com.thomsonreuters.persistence.User> > userEntityCollection = userDAO.findByName(userName); > > UserCollectionResponse userCollectionResponse = new > UserCollectionResponse(); > userCollectionResponse.userCollection = > userConverter.convertToServiceObject(userEntityCollection); > > return userCollectionResponse; > } > } > > When I do the same via bean definition files, so services defined as bean > in file and dependencies injected via the bean definition in the file, all > works okay. > > <bean id="userServiceImpl-2012-02-01" > class="com.thomsonreuters.services.userservice._2012_02_01.UserServiceImpl"> > <property name="userDAO" ref="userDAO"/> > <property name="userConverter" ref="userConverter"/> > </bean > > <jaxws:endpoint id="userServiceEndPoint-2012-02-01" > implementor="#userServiceImpl-2012-02-01" > > address="/userservice/2012-02-01/userservice" > wsdlLocation="UserService.wsdl"> > <jaxws:properties> > <entry key="schema-validation-enabled" value="true"/> > </jaxws:properties> > </jaxws:endpoint> > > Anyone run into something like this? I'm not sure how using the > annotations instead of the file definitions would cause any issues. > Tom > > -- Ted.
