#PostConstruct not called (Primefaces & Spring & Hibernate) - spring

Question

I'm using Hibernate, Spring and Primefaces (and Maven) and I'm trying to run
#PostConstruct
init() {}
to initialize a location list inside a bean. But the init() method is never called. The projects structure is:
com.xxx
com.xxx.hibernate.dao
com.xxx.hibernate.dao.impl
com.xxx.hibernate.data
com.xxx.prime.faces.bean
com.xxx.spring.service
com.xxx.spring.service.impl
application context:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.2.xsd">
<context:property-placeholder location="classpath*:META-INF/*.properties"/>
<!-- Scan for all of Spring components such as Spring Service -->
<context:component-scan base-package="com.xxx"></context:component-scan>
<!-- Create Data Source bean -->
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://host:3306/db" />
<property name="username" value="user" />
<property name="password" value="password" />
</bean>
<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property value="persistenceUnit" name="persistenceUnitName" />
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
</bean>
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/>
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
</bean>
<!-- Detect #Transactional Annotation -->
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
</beans>
The LocationView Bean:
#ManagedBean
#ViewScoped
public class LocationView implements Serializable{
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
#ManagedProperty("#{locationService}")
private LocationService locationService;
private Location location = new Location();
private List<Location> locations = new ArrayList<Location>();
#PostConstruct
public void init() {
this.locations = locationService.getAllLocations();
}
I run this on Glassfish4 in debug mode and the init() Method is never called. but I don't no why. It should be scanned for spring annotations, but I don't know how I could be sure about that.
Also I'm not sure what
<context:property-placeholder location="classpath*:META-INF/*.properties"/>
does.
Any ideas what I could check?