Do you use Java Faces with Flex?

Question

I'm having problem getting the FacesContext because the faces
serlvet does not process the mesages passed from Flex
component.

Answer 1

I created jsp pages and embeded Flex application within these
pages. I do use HTTPService to pass the data between the Flex
components and the back bean.
I ran into two major problems though. I couldn't get
FacesContext consistantly meaning that I got null when the servlet
tries to call FacesContext.getCurrentInstance() or
FacesContextFactory contextFactory =
(FacesContextFactory)
FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.FACES_CONTEXT_FACTORY);
LifecycleFactory lifecycleFactory =
(LifecycleFactory)
FactoryFinder.getFactory(FactoryFinder.LIFECYCLE_FACTORY);
Lifecycle lifecycle =
lifecycleFactory.getLifecycle(LifecycleFactory.DEFAULT_LIFECYCLE);
facesContext = contextFactory.getFacesContext(
this.getServletContext(), request, response, lifecycle);
I may have solved this problem by getting the bean directly
from the HttpServletRequest. But if the back bean tries to use
other faces context such as ExternalContext, then it gets null.
The second problem I ran into is that I can't to create two
instances of the same Flex application. I try to use SWFObject to
create two instances of the same Flex application in two different
jfp pages. The initial HTTPService is not called for the second
page. It appears that the application re-uses the same data for the
second page. I asked this question in this Forum before but I
didn't get any answer.