DataSource Connection Pool - NPE

I must be doing something wrong, but I'm having trouble figuring it out ......

I'm trying to get a connection to a db connection pool but I get a Null Pointer Exception on the DataSourcePool.  

Here is the code:

@Component
@Service(value = DatabaseConnectionImpl.class)
public class DatabaseConnectionImpl {

    protected static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DatabaseConnectionImpl.class);

    @Reference
    private DataSourcePool source;

    public Connection getDataBaseConnection(String dataSourceName) {
    Connection conn = null;
    try {

        // SOURCE IS NULL

        DataSource dataSource = (DataSource) source.getDataSource(dataSourceName);

        // SOURCE IS NULL

    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return conn;
    }

    public void executeQuery() {
    Connection con = null;
    Statement stmt = null;
    ResultSet rs = null;
    try {
        con = getDataBaseConnection("connectionDataSource");
        stmt = con.createStatement();
        rs = stmt.executeQuery("select abc from table1");
        while (rs.next()) {
        System.out.println("Jurisdiction=" + rs.getString(1));
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        try {
        if (rs != null)
            rs.close();
        if (stmt != null)
            stmt.close();
        if (con != null)
            con.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    }

}

Any advice is appreciated.