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

I was getting this same error and searching for it led me here. My fix appeared to be simply to add @Component annotation to the implementation of the abstract service.

In this case, that would look like:

import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

...

@Component
public class ContactServiceImpl implements ContactService {