The spring plugin will look by default auto wire your spring beans via type, it isn't tied to the getXXX(); method call. I myself only have the declaration and a setter, the autowiring injects the spring managed bean for me.
Nothing is done with the getters.... DAO Class: public MyDAOImpl implements MyDAO... Service Class: public MyServiceImpl implements MyService { private MyDAO myDAO; public void setMyDAO(MyDAO myDAO) { this.myDAO = myDAO; } ..... Action: public MyAction extends ActionSupport { private MyService myService; public void setMyService(MyService myService) { this.myService = myService; } ..... appContext.xml <bean id="myService" class="com.mypackage.service.impl.MyServiceImpl" > <property name="myDAO" ref="myDAO" /> </bean> <bean id="myDAO" class="com.mypackage.dao.impl.MyDAOImpl" /> ..... I hope my example helps in some way... -----Original Message----- From: Roger Varley [mailto:roger.var...@googlemail.com] Sent: 03 November 2009 12:49 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Struts 2 Spring Plugin Usage > > I use the convention plugin for Struts and I take advantage of the > spring auto wiring (by name) to automagically inject my service layer. > You can do the same for the rest. Check out the reference guide over at > spring framework to do so. Weirdly I like having my DAO and Service > classes in the appcontext xml file.. But then that is because I am > weird... > Either I'm misunderstanding the responses or I'm not being clear (I'm also using the convention plugin along with the Spring plugin.) <bean id="securityManager" class="com.myApp.security.PasswordChecker" /> is sufficient to have the PasswordChecker injected everywhere any action contains a getSecurityManager() method. However if my PasswordChecker also has need of injection to access a database (ie. PaswordChecker contains a getDaoManager() method then simply having <bean id="securityManager" class="com.myApp.security.PasswordChecker" /> <bean id="daoManager" class="com.myApp.security.DaoManager"/> in the application.context.xml does not appear to be sufficient. My action is injected with the PasswordChecker, but the PasswordChecker is not injected with the DaoManager. Regards --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org