Spring event published but no event listeners ever hear it

[Paul Broughton]

HI all, forgive me if this is a daft issue, hopefully somebody will have seen this before.

I have a springboot mvc project (SpringBoot Parent 1.5.3.RELEASE). Within that project I have wired in numerous other spring based projects one of which publishes events using the bog standard ApplicationEventPublisher.
I can see the event being published in the log for the springboot app but my listeners never ever seem to get it. I even have a generic listener which will pretty much take anything thats available and it gets nothing either.

I have no idea what the problem is, hopefully somebody else might have some insight.

thanks
Paul