Spring beans injected into JSF Managed Beans

Question

Problem Description: My injected Spring bean defined as a Managed-Property to a JSF backing bean is not being instantiated. Its always coming up null when I retreive the Man

Answer 1

In addition to using SpringBeanFacesELResolver you can benefit even more from spring by using annotations. So instead of defining your managed bean in xml, just do:

@Controller
public class FooBean {
    @Inject
    private SpringService service;
    ....
}