Spring Bean injection in JSF Converter - spring

Question

I have seen this question has been asked in this forum but following the solutions provided on those posts, I am not able to inject the spring bean in my converter.
Below is the code snippet:
UserConverter.java class:
#ManagedBean
public class UserConverter implements Converter {
private SearchServiceImpl searchService;
public SearchServiceImpl getSearchService() {
return searchService;
}
public void setSearchService(SearchServiceImpl searchService) {
this.searchService = searchService;
}
#Override
public Object getAsObject(FacesContext facesContext, UIComponent uiComponent, String submittedValue) {
List<User> users = getSearchService().getAllUsers();
if (submittedValue.trim().equals("")) {
return null;
} else {
try {
int number = Integer.parseInt(submittedValue);
for (User user : users) {
if (user.getId() == number) {
return user;
}
}
} catch(NumberFormatException exception) {
throw new ConverterException(new FacesMessage(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_ERROR, "Conversion Error", "Not a valid player"));
}
}
return null;
}
#Override
public String getAsString(FacesContext facesContext, UIComponent uiComponent, Object value) {
if (value == null || value.equals("")) {
return "";
} else {
return String.valueOf(((User) value).getFirstName());
}
}
}
I am invoking the converter from xhtml like:
<p:autoComplete id="users" value="#{userSearchBean.selecteSearchedUser}" completeMethod="# {userSearchBean.searchFriends}" var="user" itemLabel="#{user.firstName}" itemValue="#{user}" converter="#{userConverter}" forceSelection="true">
</p:autoComplete>
faces-config.xml:
<converter>
<converter-id>userConverter</converter-id>
<converter-class>com.mbeans.UserConverter</converter-class>
<property>
<property-name>searchService</property-name>
<property-class>com.services.SearchServiceImpl</property-class>
<default-value>#{searchService}</default-value>
</property>
</converter>
enter code here
SearchServiceImpl is the spring class that needs to be injected in the UserConverter.java class.
But unable to get any reference of SearchServiceImpl in the UserConverter.java
Thank you in advance for your help.