How do I inject a Spring bean into Apache Wink?

Question

How do I inject Spring-managed beans into Apache Wink?

I have a wink application started in web.xml that starts fine if I stub out a dummy data service @Autowired under an interface within it. I have implemented a JPA service to provide the data implementing the same interface, set up via Spring 2.5.6. This works fine in isolation too.

I think I just need to inject my JPA service instead of my dummy service, but I can't figure out how to do that - tried @Service annotations and <context:annotation-driven>; tried manually injecting the JPA service. It's like Wink and Spring aren't aware of each other.

The Wink docs do mention a Spring integration , however this talks about an "Apache Wink core context file" which I can't find mention of elsewhere in the Wink docs.

Anyone got any ideas?

Answer 1

The "Apache Wink core context file" wink-core-context.xml is a Spring configuration file. It is part of "wink-spring-support".

You can find the file within apache-wink-1.1.3-incubating-src.zip in apache-wink-1.1.3-incubating-src\wink-spring-support\src\main\resources\META-INF\server