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ustun
ustun

Reputation: 7031

Autowire annotation in JAX-RS and Spring

I am trying to add REST support to my Spring 3 + Hibernate application.

I have created the REST support using the wizard from Netbeans, at it has put a @Autowire annotation (not @autowired) above my Resource class. Getting the @Autowire annotation from Spring causes the error

 incompatible types
found   : org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowire
required: java.lang.annotation.Annotation

Getting @Autowire from JAX-RS should be only for Spring 2.5 as far as I understand from here. I get the following error if I include it, which I think is related to Spring 2.5 being loaded:

    SEVERE: Exception while loading the app : java.lang.IllegalStateException: 
ContainerBase.addChild: start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: 
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unexpected exception 
parsing XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]; 
nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 
org.springframework.beans.MutablePropertyValues.add(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/
Object;)Lorg/springframework/beans/MutablePropertyValues;

Could someone point me on how to add this annotation, and make JAX-RS work with Spring? Also, I was using a SessionFactory and the autogenerated code refers to a entityManagerFactory in the applicationcontext. Can those be used interchangingly?

PS: Allow me to say that I hate Java EE with a passion so far in my three week journey with the platform, major stumbling blocks at every level, sorry for the rant.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3034

Answers (1)

nicholas.hauschild
nicholas.hauschild

Reputation: 42849

You are using the wrong Autowire. The 'Netbeans REST wizard' looks like it would be using com.sun.jersey.api.spring.Autowire (last image, very bottom of page), and from your message above, you are using org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowire which appears to be an Enum used in Spring 2.0.

From what I can tell, this may be a specific thing to Spring 2.0 anyways. Perhaps you should take a look at doing the REST JAX-RS stuff yourself (using Jersey), as it is not that difficult.

Upvotes: 2

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