Faces-config bean won't resolve

Question

Hello,
A while ago I was reading about a naming convention for spring beans. In spring I can create a bean like this:
<bean id="prefix:beanId" class="org.company....">
The prefix works similar to that of namespaces: when there's two beans from independent projects/modules sharing the same name the prefix helps to keep them unique.
Anyway, when the faces-config.xml is parsed, it won't allow a colon in the name of the bean like so (an exception is thrown):
<managed-bean>..........<value>#{prefix:beanId}</value></managed-bean>
It does allow a period in there, such as:
<managed-bean>..........<value>#{prefix.beanId}</value></managed-bean>
However, after adjusting the bean identifier, it simply won't resolve. No exception, I'm getting null injected. When removing the periods, it does resolve.
Why is that?
Also, I'd like to know your experience with using id prefixes.
Thanks,
David

Answer 1

well, i figured out the problem so thought to share with all aswell.
all i changed was the name of the variable from mDept to dept.
java beans has its own set of rules and naming conventions which i have not read much about but this problem had to do sumthing with that!
just changing the name simply works fine!