Package de.mindmatters.faces.spring.context

This package and its sub-packages provides glue code for comprehensive integration of JSF (JavaServer Faces) and the Spring framework.

See:
Description

Interface Summary

FacesWebApplicationContext

Provides configuration for managed beans.

Class Summary

ContextLoader	Performs the actual initialization work for the faces root application context.
ContextLoaderListener	Bootstrap listener to start up faces' root WebApplicationContext.
ContextLoaderServlet	Bootstrap servlet to start up faces' root WebApplicationContext.
FacesWebApplicationContextUtils	Convenience methods to retrieve the faces root FacesWebApplicationContext for a given ServletContext or FacesContext.
ScopeApplicationEventMulticaster	EventMulticaster that propagates events not only to singletons and prototypes instantiated on startup of type ApplicationListener (default behaviour of Spring) but also to listeners (managed beans) in session and request scope.

Package de.mindmatters.faces.spring.context Description

This package and its sub-packages provides glue code for comprehensive integration of JSF (JavaServer Faces) and the Spring framework. This is done in a implementation independent way so that it can be used with any JSF implementation.

Goals

The main goal of jsf-spring is to provide code to integrate the two frameworks as transparently as possible:

• JSF/JSP developers should be able to access beans managed by Spring as if they'd be managed by JSF.
• JSF managed beans should be able to integrate into Spring.

Usage

The following sample configuration files show you how to enable the above mentioned features.

The web.xml configuration:

WEB-INF/web.xml fragment (as listener)

    <!--
        The listener used to load the faces context (the managed and spring beans).
    -->
    <listener>
        <listener-class>de.mindmatters.faces.spring.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener>

WEB-INF/web.xml fragment (as servlet)

    <!--
        The servlet used to load the faces context (the managed and spring beans).
    -->
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>ContextLoader</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>de.mindmatters.faces.spring.context.ContextLoaderServlet</servlet-class>
    </servlet>