Debugging Spring configuration

Question

I am working on a Java application that uses Spring and Hibernate and runs on a Websphere. I have run into a problem, where I expect Spring to load a Dao into my object, bu

Answer 1

Yes, Spring framework logging is very detailed, You did not mention in your post, if you are already using a logging framework or not. If you are using log4j then just add spring appenders to the log4j config (i.e to log4j.xml or log4j.properties), If you are using log4j xml config you can do some thing like this

or

I would advise you to test this problem in isolation using JUnit test, You can do this by using spring testing module in conjunction with Junit. If you use spring test module it will do the bulk of the work for you it loads context file based on your context config and starts container so you can just focus on testing your business logic. I have a small example here

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations={"classpath:springContext.xml"})
@Transactional
public class SpringDAOTest 
{
    @Autowired
    private SpringDAO dao;

    @Autowired
    private ApplicationContext appContext;

    @Test
    public void checkConfig()
    {
        AnySpringBean bean =  appContext.getBean(AnySpringBean.class);
        Assert.assertNotNull(bean);
    }
}

UPDATE

I am not advising you to change the way you load logging but try this in your dev environment, Add this snippet to your web.xml file

    log4jConfigLocation
    /WEB-INF/log4j.xml



    org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener

UPDATE log4j config file

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I tested this on my local tomcat and it generated a lot of logging on application start up. I also want to make a correction: use debug not info as @Rayan Stewart mentioned.