how to expose custom spring beans to the jsf context

mike_kukla — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:15:13 GMT

Throughout the Alfresco faces-config.*.xml files, one finds expressions like this: <value>#{NodeService}</value> or <value>#{SearchService}</value>.In other words, beans configured in and managed by Spring are somehow made accessible to the JSF configuration/context. For ex

Re: how to expose custom spring beans to the jsf context

mike_kukla — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:33:30 GMT

For the benefit of all those who in the days to come may alight upon this thread,
I found shortly after posting my initial question that it is trivial to expose custom
spring beans to the jsf context.

One just does what the Alfresco source itself does i.e., one could do this in faces-config-custom.xml:

<managed-bean>
      <managed-bean-name>DocumentPropertiesDialogBean</managed-bean-name>
      <managed-bean-class>someco.jsf.beans.dialogs.DocumentPropertiesDialogBean</managed-bean-class>
      <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
      <managed-property>
         <property-name>browseBean</property-name>
         <value>#{BrowseBean}</value>
      </managed-property>
      <managed-property>
         <property-name>nodeService</property-name>
         <value>#{NodeService}</value>
      </managed-property>
      <managed-property>
         <property-name>documentReferenceDataBean</property-name>
         <value>#{DocumentReferenceDataBean}</value>
      </managed-property>
      <managed-property>
         <property-name>contentCreationDialogStackDepth</property-name>
         <value>5</value>
      </managed-property>
   </managed-bean>

where DocumentReferenceDataBean is a Spring managed bean.

What lies behind this magic is, I believe, is the JSF's DelegatingVariableResolver.

For those looking for a little explanation, Sections 15.3.1- 15.3.2 of http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.6/reference/web-integration.html provide a brief, but useful explanation of the basics of Spring-JSF integration.

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