JSF - Spring: In netbeans

[Em Aiy]

Hi,

I am using Netbeans 5.5.1 + visual web pack. I have tried on a sample application creating a web page with JSF. It was quite handy with all those graphical drag and drop support. (sessionbeans, requestbeans, applicationbeans).

Now, For the architecture of our application we are using Hibernate at DB level, Spring at middle layer and JSF and UI end. Now I am unable to get how will i bind the values that are coming from UI (JSF) in the controllers of Spring for further use. Will i have to do some thing sessionbean or something else.

[James McCluskey]

Forgive me if I've misunderstood your question...

I think you need to inject a spring configured service object into your JSF bean, something like this (sorry for the clunky example):

    
public class StudentBean
{
   private String studentName;
   private String enrolledCourse;
   private StudentService studentService; // spring object
 
   public void enrolStudent()   {
       studentService.enrol(studentName, enrolledCourse);
   }
}

How to get Spring to actually set up the ApplicationContext and do the injection of the service object? Full information in the Spring User Guide at http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.0.x/reference/webintegration.html#jsf

Cheers, Jim.

[Em Aiy]

yeah, thanks for help. But i am talking about in a bit NetBeans context.

I can get the sessionbean from the JSF UI via binding the fields using NetBeans Visual IDE, now i really can not get a way that i can INJECT/BIND data from that sessionbean to the controller of spring or that sessionbean directly represent thing to NetBeans sessionbean binding object for JSF.

[James McCluskey]

Ah sorry, I'm IDE-phobic I'm afraid so I can't help there.

Out of interest, what do you mean by Spring Controller?