Autowiring a Spring Bean from a JSF Controller - spring

Question

I receive NullPoin Exception while calling any method of a Spring Bean, as it seems it is not injected in the container. And I can' t understand why.
Th particularity is that the Controller is using JSF and the Beans are Spring Bean: may be is this the problem? Or just configuration mistake?
The (simplified) code and config is:
Context.xml (called from root context)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:jpa="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa"
xmlns:plugin="http://www.springframework.org/schema/plugin"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa-1.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/plugin http://www.springframework.org/schema/plugin/spring-plugin.xsd">
<!--===========LANGUAGE_TO_LOCALE SERVICE CONFIG BEGIN===========-->
<bean
id="languagesCountryLocaleHelper"
class="com.i18n.MyControllerHelper"
scope="request" />
</beans>
JSF COntroller:
#RequestScoped
#Named
public class MyController {
#Autowired
private MyControllerHelper helper;
public void doSomething() {
helper.doSomething ();
}
}
MyControllerHelper:
#Component
public class MyControllerHelper {
public void doSomething() {
// do something useful
}
}
So, this is the simplified case.. do you have any idea on where my error can be?
Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

#Autowired
private MyControllerHelper helper = new MyControllerHelper();
change to this
#Autowired
private MyControllerHelper languagesCountryLocaleHelper;

Answer 2

I solved the problem injecting MyControllerHelper through:
helper = AppContext.getBean(MyControllerHelper.class);
After that, the bean is instantiated and injected and at cascade all the other beans after it.
I suppose it was due by the fact as JSF Controller the Controller instance Object was in a different container now automatically aware of Spring Beans.