EntityManager injection - NullPointerException
In my Spring+JPA/Hibernate+Wicket app, I have a QueryBuilder bean that I want to use in one of my DAOs which generates a typed query with the help of Criteria API: @Service(value="inboxQueryBuilder") public class InboxQueryBuilder { @PersistenceContext EntityManager em; CriteriaBuilder cb; public InboxQueryBuilder() { cb = em.getCriteriaBuilder(); } public TypedQuery<App> getQueryForApps(AppSearchObject aso) { ... } ... } However, when I run the app, I get a null pointer exception for line: cb = em.getCriteriaBuilder(); i.e. the EntityManager doesn't get injected. Do you know why? Also, is