[WW-4758] @autowired does not work since Struts 2.3.28.1

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.28
• Fix Version/s: 2.5.12
• Component/s: Plugin - Spring
• Assignee: Lukasz Lenart
• Reporter: Khurram
• Created: 15/Mar/17 04:36
• Updated: 13/Jul/17 19:28
• Resolved: 18/Jun/17 09:12

Description

I am trying to run on Tomcat a Spring 4 + Struts 2 + Hibernate web app, but it fails to start with NullPointerException for autowired field. This issue is happening after release of 2.3.28.1 So please help

2017-03-15 15:28:35,308 [http-bio-8009-exec-1] ERROR au.com.presentation.struts.action.tiles.landing.LandingSummaryPreparer - Error Id:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at au.com.presentation.struts.action.tiles.landing.LandingSummaryPreparer.performPreparer(LandingSummaryPreparer.java:142

and in my code I have autowired that always returning null
@Autowired
private Services services;