Jersey and spring integration - bean Injections are null at runtime

Question

I am trying to inject services into a Rest class that is using Jersey.

No matter what or how I try to inject into this class seems to be showing up as null at runti

Answer 1

Try

<servlet-class>
     com.sun.jersey.spi.spring.container.servlet.SpringServlet
</servlet-class>

You will also need the contextConfigLocation <context-param>, but I assume you have it. See here for more details about the setup

As matt b suggested spring instantiates your objects, but Jersey does not know anything about spring and instantiates them itself again. When you use the SpringServlet it should locate the spring application context.

That said, spring-mvc provides support for RESTful services that is very similar to that of JAX-RS. You can try it as well.