why @autowired is not working when I access a bean

Question

When I access a bean from spring bean configuration file using BeanFactory like this:

public class Person {
    private String id,address;
    @Autowired
    pri         


        

Answer 1

Why doesn't it work?

When using Spring with an XML context, using annotations is not activated by default. This means @Autowired, @Transactional, @PostConstruct and any other annotation you will use will simply not be exploited.

How do I fix it?

To make Spring aware of annotations, you need to add the following line:

Thus, Spring will search for annotations in the beans it creates and process them accordingly.

This requires activating the context namespace. At the top of your context, make sure you have all context related links and arguments¹:

You do not need in your case. This would be useful if you used full-annotation context (e.g. classes annotated with @Component). See the difference between and in this answer.

Alternate solution

As Naman Gala suggested, you could also drop @Autowired completely and inject all dependencies in XML. See the related answer for more details.

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_{¹ This includes the xmlns:context attribute (xmlns = XML NameSpace) and two URLs in xsi:schemaLocation.}