Autowiring in servlet

i want to use spring autowiring in servlet so here's my code:

@Configurable
public class ImageServlet extends HttpServlet {

   @Autowired
   private SystemPropertyDao systemPropertyDao;

   @Override
   public void init() throws ServletException {


   String imagePath = systemPropertyDao.findByID(StaticParam.CONTENT_FOLDER);

}

while the SystemPropertyDao is annotated with @Repository

and my applicationContext.xml:

<context:component-scan base-package="com.basepackage" />
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<context:annotation-config />
<context:spring-configured/>

web.xml:

  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>imageServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.xeno.basepackage.ImageServlet</servlet-class>
  </servlet>

  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>imageServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/myimages/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

sometimes the autowiring works and sometimes it doesn't (the reference to the spring bean systemPropertyDao is null), can anyone please tell me if i am missing something?

Autowiring in servlet

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