Integrating JSF with Spring

Question

I get the following exception
javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: Expression Error: Named Object: 'studentService' not found.
Any pointers as to why does this error occur would be great help.
Following is my web.xml
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
<param-value>server</param-value>
</context-param>
     <context-param>
     <param-name>javax.faces.CONFIG_FILES</param-name>
     <param-value>/WEB-INF/faces-config.xml</param-value>
     </context-param>
     <context-param>
     <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
     <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
     </context-param>
     <listener>
     <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
     </listener>
<listener>
<listener-class>com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<!-- Faces Servlet -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup> 1 </load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<!-- Faces Servlet Mapping -->
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
faces-config.xml
<application>
     <variable-resolver>org.springframework.web.jsf.DelegatingVariableResolver</variable-resolver>
</application>
     <managed-bean>
     <description>
     Backing bean that contains Student information.
     </description>
     <managed-bean-name>studentBackingBean</managed-bean-name>
     <managed-bean-class>com.lms.student.impl.ui.StudentBackingBean</managed-bean-class>
     <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
          <managed-property>
     <property-name>studentService</property-name>
     <value>#{studentService}</value>
     </managed-property>
     </managed-bean>
applicationContext.xml
     <bean id="studentService" class="com.lms.student.impl.service.StudentServiceImpl">
     <property name="studentDAO" ref="studentDAO"/>
     </bean>
I have spring2.0 jar and jsf 1.1 RI jar

Answer 1

I believe it has nothing to do with how spring bean is configured
If I look at the stach trace
javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: Expression Error: Named Object: 'studentService' not found.
     at com.sun.faces.config.ManagedBeanFactory.getScopeForSingleExpression(ManagedBeanFactory.java:998)
     at com.sun.faces.config.ManagedBeanFactory.hasValidLifespan(ManagedBeanFactory.java:931)
     at com.sun.faces.config.ManagedBeanFactory.evaluateValueBindingGet(ManagedBeanFactory.java:892)
     at com.sun.faces.config.ManagedBeanFactory.setPropertiesIntoBean(ManagedBeanFactory.java:553)
     at com.sun.faces.config.ManagedBeanFactory.newInstance(ManagedBeanFactory.java:234)
     at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationAssociate.createAndMaybeStoreManagedBeans(ApplicationAssociate.java:253)
     at com.sun.faces.el.VariableResolverImpl.resolveVariable(VariableResolverImpl.java:78)
     at org.springframework.web.jsf.DelegatingVariableResolver.resolveVariable(DelegatingVariableResolver.java:108)
Should be some scoping error.