Spring, abstract class and annotations

Question

Solution 1

Your setup seems fine. The reason perhaps lies elsewhere. Maybe you are instantiating the class with new CreateDatabaseAction(), rather than letting spring do this.

Solution 2

Use @Autowired and not @Inject from javax.inject.

Dependency injection in abstract class only works for spring's @Autowired.

FYI, I'm using Spring 4.0; Java 6