Using Spring managed DAO without controller?

Question

Hello,

I'm trying to get my Portlets work with some DAO Objects which I configured as spring beans. I've included an application.xml to my WEB-INF, added it to my web.xml, configured hibernater support, a datasource. Everything seems fine, after deployment I see the context loaded message from spring. Now I'm trying to get one dao object injected in my regular portlet (extends GenericPortlet) with the

[at]Autowired

Annonation. But the object is still null. Isn't it possible to use spring managed DAO objects without a regular spring mvc controller?

Thanks for reading

Answer 1

The classes that the DAO is to be injected into must be also inside ths spring context. You can either take a look at this, or get the DAO by accessing the ApplicationContext, rather than have the beans injected. The ApplicationContext can be obtained with:

PortletApplicationContextUtils.getRequiredWebApplicationContext(portletContext)