#Autowired not working in CXF interceptor + Spring application - spring

Question

Having an issue with how CXF interceptor is setup and used by Spring. I want to log the incoming SOAP requests to database for audit log. I have the setup as below, but whenever incoming SOAP request comes, I get NPE where the service layer class is being accessed. It looks from log that the web application context is being re-loaded again leading to null reference for service bean.
I had a look at the two entries - this and this - which are close, and tried out the solution in first link, but not working.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Interceptor code:
public class AuditLogInterceptor extends AbstractLoggingInterceptor {
private AuditLogService auditLogService;
#Autowired
public void setAuditLogService(AuditLogService auditLogService) {
this.auditLogService = auditLogService;
}
private void saveAuditLogEntry() {
// some more code ...
auditLogService.logRequest(logEntry);
}
cxf-servlet.xml
<import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml" />
<import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-servlet.xml" />
<bean id="jsonProvider" class="org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JacksonJsonProvider" />
<!-- Add new endpoints for additional services you'd like to expose -->
<bean id="abstractLogInterceptor" abstract="true">
<property name="prettyLogging" value="true" />
</bean>
<bean class="com.xyz.interceptor.AuditLogInterceptor" id="logInInterceptor" parent="abstractLogInterceptor"/>
<jaxws:endpoint id="dataService" implementor="#masterDataService" address="/MasterDataService">
<jaxws:inInterceptors>
<ref bean="logInInterceptor" />
</jaxws:inInterceptors>
</jaxws:endpoint>
web.xml
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
classpath:/applicationContext-resources.xml
classpath:/applicationContext-dao.xml
classpath:/applicationContext-service.xml
classpath*:/applicationContext.xml
/WEB-INF/applicationContext*.xml
/WEB-INF/cxf-servlet.xml
/WEB-INF/security.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.util.IntrospectorCleanupListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>CXFServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>CXFServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/services/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Answer 1

I expect you're getting the contents of /WEB-INF/cxf-servlet.xml included in both the CXFServlet's context and the ContextLoaderListener's. Try removing the line /WEB-INF/cxf-servlet.xml from the ContextLoaderListener's contextConfigLocation attribute. You should also rename cxf-servlet.xml because the CXFServlet looks for a file with that exact name (see http://cxf.apache.org/docs/configuration.html) - or merge it into the rest of your applicationContext.xml.