JSF 2 inject Spring bean/service with @ManagedProperty and no xml

Question

I would like to use jsf annotations and some spring annotations to inject a spring bean/service into a jsf managed bean. (on the jsf bean i only want to use jsf annotations) I dont want to use annotations like @named / @inject.

I have tried to find a solution on the net but without any luck.

Example

@ManagedBean
@ViewScoped 
public class MyBean {

    @ManagedProperty(value = "#{mySpringBean}")
    private MySpringBean mySpringBean;

    public void setMySpringBean(MySpringBean mySpringBean) {
        this.mySpringBean = mySpringBean;
    }

    public void doSomething() {
    //do something with mySpringBean
    }
}

Is something like this possible without the use of xml. For example, I would NOT like to use something like

FacesContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(context).getBean("MySpringBean");

or in faces-config.xml

<managed-bean>
    <managed-bean-name>myBean</managed-bean-name>
    <managed-bean-class>com.mytest.MyBean</managed-bean-class>
    <managed-bean-scope>view</managed-bean-scope>
    <managed-property>
        <property-name>mySpringBean</property-name>
        <value>#{mySpringBean}</value>
    </managed-property>
</managed-bean>

Is something like the above possible with annotations and without defining all the jsf beans/properties and the spring beans/properties for every bean in the config xml files?

Funny, I use this method of injection and it works for me, but then I also include the property injection in my applicationContext.xml as well. The Spring EL resolver does not seem to work with ViewScoped beans that I have noticed. Try changing this to SessionScoped and see if the property becomes injected. — maple_shaft
I want to avoid the applicationContext.xml (I'm a bit stubborn! thanks) But thanks :) — Dimman

Ravi Kadaboina Ravi Kadaboina · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-19T21:36:06

If you already have Spring container why not use its @Autowired annotation. For that, Update your faces-config.xml as suggested by Boni. Then add these listeners to your web.xml after this

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

<listener>
  <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>

<listener>
  <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener</listener-class>
</listener>

Then add these to your applicationContext.xml

<context:component-scan base-package="com.examples" />

Now you can use Spring annotations and your bean will be something like this:

package com.examples;
@Component
@Scope(value="request")
public class MyBean {
    @Autowired
    private MySpringBeanClass mySpringBean;
}

Annotate your MySpringBeanClass with @Service

JSF 2 inject Spring bean/service with @ManagedProperty and no xml

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