Injected Bean is Null

[Jubril Adisa]

I defined a Bean in the component.xml File

<component name="jobCategoryDAO" class="com.brefftjobs.dao.JobCategoryDAO" auto-create="true"></component>

and I am injecting it into a Class that i have defined as a Application Scoped Component

@Name("jobCategoryService")
@Scope(ScopeType.APPLICATION)
public class JobCategoryService {

@In("#{jobCategoryDAO}")
     IJobCategoryDAO jobCategoryDAO;


@Create
public void load(){
System.out.println("$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$Load Executed");//Injected jobcategoryDAO is null

Whenever i try to access it the jobCategoryDAO always returns null

[Luke Simon]

Try with

@AutoCreate 

on top of jobCategory class or try with

@In(create=true)

[Jubril Adisa]

Thanks i discovered my own mistake

In JobCategoryService i wrote a Constructor, which i guess you are not supposed to, which is the reason why @Create was made available in the first place, After i removed the @Create, the application is now working correctly