[Springframework-developer] JSF, Spring, and Spring Portlet MVC

[Jan N. <jan...@gm...>]

We are building JSR-168 JSF portles for deployment into LifeRay Portal
with Spring and Hibernate. To hook into Spring we declare the
following in web.xml:

    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener>

    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener</listener-class>
    </listener>

This is straight JSF - no Spring MVC or Spring Portlet MVC. Question
is: should the "scope" attribute on Spring context defined beans work
in this configuration; specifically, should the web scope values,
e.g., session, work in this configuration?

More generally, is it possible to use JSF as the view technology for
Spring Portlet MVC? Can anyone provide a sample ala "petportal"? If it
is possible, what do you do with JSF's navigation-rules in the Spring
Portlet MVC model?

Many thanks for any help you can provide. (I posed the 'use' question,
on the Spring user list a few days ago with no response...)


-Jan