Call spring controller from faces-config.xml

[ashish kulkarni]

Hi
I am trying to integrate Spring 3.0 with current JSF 1.1 project, so i got spring added and it works well, now i want to send request from jsf backing bean to spring controller, so in my faces-config.xml i changed as below

<navigation-rule>
    <from-view-id>/jsf/mysearch/search.jsp</from-view-id>
    <navigation-case>
        <from-outcome>go</from-outcome>
        <!-- <to-view-id>/jsf/mysearch/details.jsp</to-view-id> -->
         <to-view-id>/spring/details</to-view-id>
        
        <redirect/>
    </navigation-case>
 </navigation-rule>

I have a Spring controller defined as @RequestMapping(value = "/details") and in my web.xml i have added

<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/spring/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

When i directly call URL http://localhost:8080/myapp/spring/details it works fine, but when jsf is forwarding this request it adds .faces so the URL looks like below

http://localhost:8080/myapp/spring/details.faces

So how can i get it working any ideas

[Tim Holloway]

You cannot navigate to a non-JSF View using JSF navigation (faces-config). JSF navigation only navigates to JSF Views.

However, you can define forms or links with non-JSF URLs in them on JSF pages that request non-JSF services for things like the Spring web controller, Struts actions, raw JSPs and servlets, and so forth.

[ashish kulkarni]

What i have done in my backingbean i have added redirect like below and looks like it is working

FacesContext fc = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
        ExternalContext ec = fc.getExternalContext();
        try{
        ec.redirect("/myapp/details.spring");
       
        }
        catch(Exception exc){
            log.error(exc);
        }