Help needed with JSF-Spring in eclipse

[deshki raja]

Hi,
I want to make a JSF-Spring Application in Eclipse....What are the jars I need....? What are the steps to be followed ? I have been trying it for sometime..but some how or other its not working out...can anyone help me on this ?

[Tim Holloway]

Eclipse has nothing to do with it.

Here's a snippet of my Maven POM for a Spring-based JSF project:

       <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring</artifactId>
            <version>2.5</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
            <version>2.5</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
            <version>2.5</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-oxm-tiger</artifactId>
            <version>1.5.4</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-jpa</artifactId>
            <version>2.0.6</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>

Some of these items are optional. For example, unless you're using JPA (and it's a good thing to use), you can omit spring-jpa. The first one is definitely required, the next 2 probably, after that I'm not sure. I added them as I needed them.

You also need to have this in your faces-config.xml file so that the spring beans can be seen (and injected) by the JSF EL processor:

    <application>
        <variable-resolver>
            org.springframework.web.jsf.DelegatingVariableResolver</variable-resolver>
        <locale-config>
            <default-locale>en</default-locale>
        </locale-config>
        <resource-bundle>
            <base-name>com.myapp.messages.Messages</base-name>
            <var>msg</var>
        </resource-bundle>
    </application>

The part that counts is the DelegatingVariableResolver. The others are mostly just good practice.