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There are a number of ways to integrate Spring into WebWork with Spring.

Use SpringObjectFactory

The xwork-optional package from dev.java.net contains a module xwork-spring that contains all the necessary code to use Spring in WebWork. It contains primarily a SpringObjectFactory to wire up the dependencies for an Action before passing it to WebWork. Each action should be configured within a Spring application context as a prototype (because WebWork assumes a new instance of a class for every action invocation). Specify something like this in applicationContext.xml:

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