This class together with SpringReferenceSupporter makes it possible to use spring annotation driven injection with wicket (for example @Autowired and @Qualifier annotated fields). It has most of the benefits of SpringReference (except lazy lookup) so this can be used too where @SpringBean from wicket-spring fails (no dynamic proxies used, serialization supported).

Instances of this class use the SpringReferenceSupporter for bean lookup, so it must be registered in your wicket WebApplication init() method ( SpringReferenceSupporter.register(this);). Otherwise you will get NullPointerException during instantiation. See SpringReferenceSupporter for more information.

Probably this is the most ugly looking in code from the spring-wicket integration alternatives, however this is the closest to the vanilla spring injection.
The base idea is that the spring dependencies are encapsulated into a subclass of this class. Dependencies are (re)injected during instantiation, deserialization and cloning.

Usage:

• you can declare it in your wicket components, models or your custom classes as well
• see the custom Deps subclass in the example below
• note that injected dependencies are marked as transient so they are not serialized by wicket (they will be reinjected during deserialization)

 
 public class MySession extends AuthenticatedWebSession
 {
        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
        
        // This nested class holds all our spring dependencies. Annotated in spring style.
        static class Deps extends AbstractSpringDependencies
        {
                private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
        
                @Autowired
                @Qualifier("authenticationManager")
                transient AuthenticationManager authenticationManager;
 
                @Autowired
                transient AbstractRememberMeServices abstractRememberMeServices;
        }
        
        private final Deps deps = new Deps();
        
        // ...
 
        public boolean authenticate(String username, String password)
        {
                // ...
                deps.authenticationManager.authenticate(token);
                AbstractRememberMeServices rememberMeServices = deps.abstractRememberMeServices;
                // ...
        }
 }