Abstract Class bean definition for autowired field within jar - spring

Question

I am having a problem with autowiring. Here is my project's situation:
I have a jar (let's call it module.jar). This jar contains an Interface (IService):
package com.module.service;
public interface IService {
String create(Object data) throws Exception;
String update(Object data);
}
an abstract class which implements the interface (ServiceImpl):
package com.module.service
public abstract class ServiceImpl implements IService {
#Override
public final String create(Object data) throws Exception {
return update(data);
}
public abstract String update(Object data);
}
and a separate class which has an autowired IService field:
package com.module.service;
public class DoSomething {
#Autowired
IService service;
public String doCreate(Object data) {
return service.create(data);
}
}
I have a project (let's call it project). This project contains module.jar, and a class which extends the abstract ServiceImpl (we'll call it ServiceImplExt). ServiceImplExt is declared like so:
package com.project.service;
import com.module.service.ServiceImpl;
#Service
public class ServiceImplExt extends ServiceImpl {
#Override
public String update(Object data) {
data.setFname("John");
data.setLname("Doe");
return data;
}
}
I have added the ServiceImplExt's package to the component-scan of my spring 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"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.project.service" />
</beans>
After all of this, still when I start the server I get the following exception:
org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [com.demo.service.IService] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {#org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)}
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.raiseNoSuchBeanDefinitionException(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1100)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:960)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:855)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:480)
... 42 more
I cannot figure out what it is that I can be doing wrong. Any ideas?
Added the code, added xml to aide potential helpers