Why does Autowiring not function in a thread?

Question

I\'ve made a maven project in Spring 3.0, I\'ve made some DAO, services and controllers, in one of mine controller I call a service in which I start a thread, the problem is tha

Answer 1

Spring just autowires beans of the context, no instances created by new. But why do you have declared uService in AddFriendInMyFriendListTask and not as a bean property of the outer (bean) class AddFriendInMyFriendListTaskExecutor, that should simply work:

@Component
public class AddFriendInMyFriendListTaskExecutor {

  private class AddFriendInMyFriendListTask implements Runnable {

    private final User a;
    private final User b;

    public AddFriendInMyFriendListTask(User aA, User bB) {
      a = aA;
      b = bB;
    }

    public void run() {
      AddFriendInMyFriendListTaskExecutor.this.uService.insertRightUserIntoLeftUserListOfFriends(a, b);
    }
  }

  @Autowired
  private IUserService uService;

  @Autowired
  private TaskExecutor taskExecutor;

  public void doIt(User a, User b) {
    taskExecutor.execute(new AddFriendInMyFriendListTask(a, b));
  }
}

(removed some unused getter/setter and made taskExecutor also a bean property)