Q:

Failing to call spring bean from portlet

I have Spring bean as below:
    @Service("bookService")
public class BookServiceImpl implements BookService {
    @Autowired
    @Qualifier("bookDao")
    private BookDao bookDao;

i have a portlet trying access it as below:
   62   public BookService getBookService() {
63      ApplicationContext springCtx =   PortletApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(getPortletContext());
64      return (BookService)springCtx.getBean("bookService");
    }

but i have the below nullpointer exception:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at chapter09.code.listing.base.BookCatalogPortlet.getBookService(BookCatalogPortlet.java:64)
at chapter09.code.listing.base.BookCatalogPortlet.init(BookCatalogPortlet.java:59)

Please let me know if i am missing some thing
source available @http://portletsinaction.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ch9_BookCatalogSpringJdbc/
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A:

Its issue with Liferay 6.1.1 
I have tested the same with 6.0.6 and its working fine.

