AspectJ: Autowired fields are null in Initbinder

I just implemented AspectJ like described here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10998044/2182503 This solution works fine, until I noticed that my `@Autowired` fields are null within `@InitBinder`. The fields are only null within the `@InitBinder`. ``` @Controller public class EmployeeController { @Autowired private GenericDaoImpl<Role, Integer> roleDao; @Autowired private GenericDaoImpl<Employee, Integer> employeeDao; @Autowired private EmployeeValidator employeeValidator; @InitBinder private void initBinder(WebDataBinder binder) { // autowired fields are null binder.setValidator(employeeValidator); binder.registerCustomEditor(Set.class, "roles", new CustomCollectionEditor(Set.class) { protected Object convertElement(Object element) { if (element != null) { Integer id = new Integer((String) element); Role role = roleDao.findById(id); return role; } return null; } }); } @PreAuthorize("hasRole('MASTERDATA_VIEW')") @RequestMapping(value = { "/employees" }, method = RequestMethod.GET) public ModelAndView showEmployeeList() { // dao not null List<Employee> employees = employeeDao.findAll(); ... } ``` I cannot comprehend why they are sometimes null and somethimes not.(within the same class)