When developing with Apache Wicket, there are times when you won't be able to use wicket-spring to access your bean implementations. Here is a simple example that you can add to your Wicket Application class to make accessing the context easier protected void init() { ... ServletContext servletContext = super.getServletContext(); applicationContext = WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(servletContext); ... } private ApplicationContext applicationContext; public Object getBean(String name) { if (name == null) return null; return applicationContext.getBean(name); }