jdbcTemplate is null and throws null pointer exception
<p>I am new to Spring. I am trying to develop REST API using Spring web MVC. I am trying to fetch some data using JdbcTemplate from my database (MySQL). But when i run the code in the server I am getting <code>500- Internal Server Error</code> and the stack trace shows <code>java.lang.NullPointerException</code>. When i tried to debug the code i found out that jdbcTemplate variable has null value. I have tried every solution provided in web but still getting the same error. </p>

<p>Here is my <strong>applicationContext.xml</strong> file</p>

<pre><code>    &lt;context:component-scan base-package="com.cinema.repository" /&gt;


    &lt;bean id="jdbcTemplate" class="org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate"&gt;
        &lt;property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" /&gt;
    &lt;/bean&gt;
    &lt;bean id="userDao" class="com.cinema.repository.UserDaoImpl"&gt;
        &lt;property name="jdbcTemplate" ref="jdbcTemplate" /&gt;
    &lt;/bean&gt;
    &lt;bean id="dataSource"
    class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource"&gt;
        &lt;property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}" /&gt;
        &lt;property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}" /&gt;
        &lt;property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}" /&gt;
        &lt;property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}" /&gt;
    &lt;/bean&gt;

    &lt;context:property-placeholder location="/WEB-INF/jdbc.properties" /&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>My <strong>UserDaoImpl.java</strong> looks is: </p>

<pre><code>public class UserDaoImpl implements UserDao {
private JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate;

public JdbcTemplate getJdbcTemplate() {
    return jdbcTemplate;
}
@Autowired
public void setJdbcTemplate(JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate) {
    this.jdbcTemplate = jdbcTemplate;
}

public User getUser(int userId) {
    String sql ="SELECT * FROM user_tbl WHERE user_id = ?";
    return this.jdbcTemplate.queryForObject(sql,new Object[]{new Integer(userId)}, new UserMapper() );
}

private static final class UserMapper implements RowMapper&lt;User&gt;{
    public User mapRow(ResultSet rs, int rowCount) throws SQLException {
        User u = new User();
        u.setUserId(rs.getInt("user_id"));
        u.setUserName(rs.getString("username"));
        u.setPassword(rs.getString("password"));
        u.setEmailId(rs.getString("email"));
        u.setRole(rs.getString("role"));
        return u;
    }
  }
}
</code></pre>

<p>And my controller class is <strong>UserController.java</strong>:</p>

<pre><code>@RestController
@RequestMapping(value="/user")
public class UserController {
    @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, value="/{userId}", produces = {MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE})
    ResponseEntity&lt;User&gt; getUser(@PathVariable int userId){
        UserDaoImpl user = new UserDaoImpl();
        User u = new User();
        u=user.getUser(userId);
        return new ResponseEntity&lt;User&gt;(u, HttpStatus.OK);
    }
}
</code></pre>

<p>and i am getting the following stack trace while running the application:</p>

<pre><code>10-Feb-2016 02:50:28.165 SEVERE [tomcat-http--5] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke Servlet.service() for servlet [spring] in context with path [/booking] threw exception [Request processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException] with root cause
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.cinema.repository.UserDaoImpl.getUser(UserDaoImpl.java:31)
at com.cinema.web.UserController.getUser(UserController.java:21)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.doInvoke(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:222)
at org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invokeForRequest(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:137)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.invokeAndHandle(ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.java:110)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:814)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:737)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.handle(AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.java:85)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:959)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:893)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:969)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:860)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:622)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:845)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:291)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:239)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:219)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:106)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:502)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:142)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:616)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:88)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:518)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1091)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:673)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:277)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
</code></pre>

<p>Please tell me what i am doing wrong here. I have been stuck on this problem for a week now and still cannot make my code work. Thanks in advance. </p>