Autowiring not working for #Repository - spring

Question

I am trying to create a Simple REST service that stores data in the db. This is a sample architecture going from REST controller to a MVC-Controller, which instantiates an Entity and tries to store it in the db via an autowired Repository.
The REST service is correctly invoked and replies what it has to; however, storing the entity fails and the autowired repository is null.
Can somebody help?
My REST service:
#RestController
#RequestMapping("/coord")
public class CoordService {
#RequestMapping(value = "/{name}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String getMuseo(#PathVariable String name) {
String result = "Hello " + name + ", I am saving on the db.";
new CoordController().saveCoord();
return result;
}
}
My application business logic (controller in MVC):
#Component
public class CoordController {
#Autowired
private CoordRepository coordRepository;
public void saveCoord() {
System.out.println("Ok controller");
Coord cg = new Coord();
System.out.println("Ok new");
cg.setCoord("xyz");
cg.setId(1L);
if (coordRepository == null) {
System.out.println("REP NULL!");
} else
coordRepository.save(cg);
System.out.println("Ok save()");
}
}
My Entity:
#Entity
#Configurable
public class Coord extends IdentifiableEntity {
#NotNull
private String coord;
public String getCoord() {
return this.coord;
}
public void setCoord(String coord) {
this.coord = coord;
}
}
My Repository:
#Repository
public interface CoordRepository extends
JpaSpecificationExecutor<Coord>,
JpaRepository<Coord, Long> {
}
My applicationContext.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:jpa="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.2.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.2.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa.xsd">
<context:property-placeholder location="classpath*:spring/*.properties" />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.lh.clte" />
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClassName" value="${database.driverClassName}" />
<property name="url" value="${database.url}" />
<property name="username" value="${database.username}" />
<property name="password" value="${database.password}" />
<property name="initialSize" value="3" />
<property name="maxActive" value="10" />
</bean>
<tx:annotation-driven mode="proxy"
transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager"
id="transactionManager">
<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
</bean>
<bean
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean"
id="entityManagerFactory">
<property name="persistenceUnitName" value="persistenceUnit" />
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
</bean>
<jpa:repositories base-package="com.lh.clte.repository" />
</beans>
My persistence.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd"
version="2.0">
<persistence-unit name="persistenceUnit"
transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
<provider>org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider</provider>
<properties>
<property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect" />
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="update" />
<property name="hibernate.ejb.naming_strategy" value="org.hibernate.cfg.ImprovedNamingStrategy" />
<property name="hibernate.connection.charSet" value="UTF-8" />
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>

Answer 1

Your problem is here
new CoordController().saveCoord();
You need to autowire your CoordController into your CoordService. By using new CoordController(), you are creating an instance of CoordController not managed by spring so its fields are not autowired.
#RestController
#RequestMapping("/coord")
public class CoordService {
#Autowired
private CoordController coordController;
#RequestMapping(value = "/{name}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String getMuseo(#PathVariable String name) {
String result = "Hello " + name + ", I am saving on the db.";
coordController.saveCoord();
return result;
}
}
By the way, your CoordService class should be named CoordController since its a controller (it has the #RestController annotation!) and your CoordController should be CoordService since it contains business logic.