Using Spring in Nitrox for JSF

Question

Hallo -- I have a full domain model implemented with Hibernate and Spring, making extensive use of Spring's Hibernate APIs, so need to be able to include Spring support in my Nitrox JSF app.
The problem is, all I can find is seemingly contradictory articles on how to do this.
Can anyone give me a breakdown of the steps I need to take to include Spring support & access the Spring beans I've wired in a Nitrox JSF app.?
Like, what web.xml entries, what faces-config.xml entries, etc.?
I have been struggling w/ this for some time & am getting very close to a deadline, so any & all help would be very appreciated!
Cheers,
doug.

Answer 1

Yes, it is doable but using a trick which I can think of so far. First of all, it is understood that JSF will always display the page name in the URL from which the request was submitted.
Now, you can have a single page named 'ConstantPage.jsp' with layout defined say, top, left body, right and footer portion, usually this will define your complete page layout.
Now, just a trick is that, all page will simply navigate to ContsantPage.jsp, and this jsp itself will include required portion (dynamic page) required to display the current complete page.
In this fashion, your application will always show /faces/'ConstantPage.jsp in browser URL, and page contents will vary based on the provided page name to include.
Hope this will solve your problem, efficiently.
Edited by: Rajneesh.K.Rajput on Dec 7, 2009 1:45 AM