Dependency Injection inside of HttpSessionListener implementation

Question

Problem: This injected dependency will always return 0 from SimpleController

1. Why does the context get lost for this bean when try

Answer 1

When you declare a in web.xml like so

    com.stuff.morestuff.SessionCounterListener

you are telling your Servlet container to instantiate the class specified in the listener-class element. In other words, this instance will not be managed by Spring and it will therefore not be able to inject anything and the field will remain null.

There are workarounds to this. And some more.

Note that this

is not a valid entry in web.xml. I don't know if that was a copy mistake on your part.