Is this a Spring 2.5 thing? I'm not using 2.5 yet and haven't had to do anything to get my actions to be injected with Spring beans (at least I don't think so; I remember having to set the object factory to "spring" in earlier days?)
Dave --- Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Asleson, Ryan wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I found this guide to injecting Spring beans into Struts 2 Actions: > > > > http://cwiki.apache.org/WW/spring.html > > > > According to the red box at the bottom of the document, the Struts > 2 > > Action does not need to be registered with Spring. So far so good. > > Er, that's not as clear as it could be; I believe it means that > 'registering Actions with Spring is not required *if you don't want > Spring dependency injection for that action*'. In other words, you > *do* > need Spring to know about the action if you want it to inject > dependencies. > > > However, I'm a little unclear as to how exactly it "knows" what > Spring > > beans to inject into the Struts 2 Action. Assuming I have a Struts > 2 > > Action that depends on a PersonService, I assume that the Struts 2 > > Action would have a public mutator for the PersonService like this: > > > > public void setPersonService(PersonService service) { > > this.personService = service; > > } > > > > How does the injection system "know" that this method should be > used for > > injecting a Spring bean? Imagine that the Struts 2 Action has > several > > "set" methods, and that there are a number of configured Spring > beans. > > It would take way too long for the injection system to look through > > every "set" method on the Action and try to find a matching Spring > bean, > > especially if there are a lot of Spring beans (and there usually > are). > > > > The document above includes this comment: > > > > We strongly recommend that you find declarative ways of letting > Spring > > know what to provide for your actions. > > > > But it doesn't give an example of how to let Spring know what to > provide > > to the actions. > > > > So, the question is: How do I tell Spring what beans need to be > > injected into the Action? > > You can either configure the action as a Spring bean in your > applicationContext.xml and use the normal declarative syntax to do > this, > or you can use Spring 2.5's @Component, @Resource, etc. annotations > and > skip the XML. But you do need to do one or the other. > > L. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
