Spring session-scoped beans (controllers) and references to services, in terms of serialization

Question

• a standard case - you have a controller (@Controller) with @Scope(\"session\").
• classes put in the session usually are expected to i

Answer 1

I recently combined JSF with Spring. I use RichFaces and the @KeepAlive feature, which serializes the JSF bean backing the page. There are two ways I have gotten this to work.

1) Use @Component("session") on the JSF backing bean

2) Get the bean from ELContext when ever you need it, something like this:

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public static  T  getBean(String beanName) {
    return (T) FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getApplication().getELResolver().getValue(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getELContext(), null, beanName);
}