Hello, Not sure if this is a Struts 2 or Spring question but I'll start here. I'm using Struts 2 along with Spring 2.5. In our Struts 2 Actions, we use the @Autowired annotation to inject our service beans into the Action class: @Autowired private MyService myService; Note that we do *not* have a public setter method; just the @Autowired annotation. In our Spring config file, we have this tag which (supposedly) tells Spring that autowiring will be used: <context:annotation-config/> When an Action is executed all of the @Autowired dependencies have been injected. There's a lot of magic going on there so I have some questions: 1. How and when (and preferably, in what class) is the Action for a request created? 2. How and when does Spring inject the @Autowired dependencies into the Action, especially considering there are no public setter methods for the dependencies? If I create an Action using the "new" operator none of the dependencies are injected, but somehow when Struts 2 creates the Action, the dependencies are injected. How or when does this happen? How does Spring "know" what to inject and when to do it? Thank you!!! -Ryan
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