What to put into applicationContext and faces-config? - spring

Question

I created a JSF Application and I'm not sure what I should put into the faces-config?
One of my ManagedBeans looks like the following:
#ManagedBean(name = "ProfileBean")
#ViewScoped
public class ProfileBean implements Serializable
my applicationcontext
<context:annotation-config />
<bean class="org.springframework.context.annotation.CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor" />
<bean id="QuestionDao" class="code.elephant.dao.QuestionDao"></bean>
<bean id="QuestionService" class="code.elephant.service.QuestionService">
<constructor-arg ref="QuestionDao"/>
</bean>
<bean id="QuestionBean" class="controller.QuestionBean">
<constructor-arg ref="QuestionService"/>
</bean>
<bean id="UserDao" class="code.elephant.dao.UserDao"></bean>
<bean id="UserService" class="code.elephant.service.UserService">
<constructor-arg ref="UserDao"/>
</bean>
<bean id="LoginBean" class="controller.LoginBean">
<constructor-arg ref="UserService"/>
</bean>
<bean id="ProfileBean" class="controller.ProfileBean">
<constructor-arg ref="UserService" />
<property name="_LoginBean" ref="LoginBean"></property>
</bean>
my faces-config
<application>
<el-resolver>org.springframework.web.jsf.el.SpringBeanFacesELResolver</el-resolver>
</application>
I saw some examples which defines <managed-beans> in the java-faces.config but I already used the #ManagedBean annotation in the java class. Is this rly necessary? Is my setup up with jsf spring correct? Should I also define the managed beans in the faces-config?

Answer 1

The purpose of the SpringBeanFacesELResolver that you have configured in faces-config is to make it so that you can use Spring beans instead of the old-style JSF managed beans or CDI dependency injection.
Remove the #ManagedBean annotation from your ProfileBean class. You don't need it since you are using Spring instead of JSF's old managed beans mechanism.
The #ManagedBean annotation is a remnant from old versions of JSF; don't use it if you are using a newer version of JSF. Current versions of JSF use CDI (the standard Java EE API for dependency injection), but you are using Spring instead, so you should configure your beans the Spring way (which you are already doing since you've defined ProfileBean in your Spring XML config).