BeanFactory not initialized or already closed - call 'refresh' before accessing beans

Question

I\'m trying to add spring security to a regular JSF application. After repeated tries and I\'m failing with the following error on tomcat bring-up.

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Answer 1

You need to add RequestContextListener to your web.xml what it does is namely bind the HTTP request object to the Thread that is servicing that request. This makes beans which are request- and session-scoped available further down the call chain.

    org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener