Could not autowire field in spring. why?

Question

I keep getting this error, and can\'t figure out why.. yes I know there many people had similar issues, but reading the answers they got, does not solve my problem.

Answer 1

In spring servlet .xml :

(I assumed that the service impl is in the same package as the service interface "net.service")

I think you have to add the package net.service (or all of net) to the component scan. Currently spring only searches in net.controller for components and as your service impl is in net.service, it will not be instantiated by spring.