Basic RichFaces Project with Spring

To create basic RichFaces enabled project, you can run the following maven command provided by JBoss.

mvn archetype:generate
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.jboss.portletbridge.archetypes
-DarchetypeArtifactId=richfaces-basic
-DarchetypeVersion=1.0.0.B6
-DgroupId=org.whatever.project
-DartifactId=myprojectname
-DarchetypeRepository=http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/

Make sure that you use the proper version of the Portlet Bridge of Jboss. Read more here
To enable Spring to manage your JSF Beans you should add this context arguments to your web.xml

  
    org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
  



  
   org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener
  

This are the listeners which enables Spring to load it's context and create the beans, and to process Request from JSF to Spring and preserve the session.

Inside of faces-config.xml :

          org.springframework.web.jsf.DelegatingVariableResolver
    

This delegates the JSF Variable resolver to look up for EL Expressions defined beans in Spring. In other words, it replaces the standard JSF EL resolver.

Now you would be able to define your JSF Beans in Spring as follows:

 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:osgi="http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans   
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
       
       
       
   

This bean can be used with your JSF Tag as usual:

In deed simple.

Here is the full web.xml:

                xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">

 
   javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD
   server
 


   
      javax.portlet.faces.renderPolicy
      ALWAYS_DELEGATE
   

   
      org.ajax4jsf.RESOURCE_URI_PREFIX
      rfRes
   

   
      org.richfaces.LoadStyleStrategy
      NONE
   
   
      
      org.richfaces.LoadScriptStrategy
      NONE
   

   
      org.ajax4jsf.COMPRESS_SCRIPT
      true
   


      org.richfaces.CONTROL_SKINNING
      enable


 
  contextConfigLocation
  classpath:spring-context.xml
 

     
  RichFaces Filter 
   richfaces   
   org.ajax4jsf.Filter 
 

       
   richfaces 
   Faces Servlet
   REQUEST
   FORWARD
   INCLUDE

  

   com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener
  
 
 
  org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
 
 
 
  org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener
 
 



   Faces Servlet
   javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet
   1




   Faces Servlet
   /faces/*


   Faces Servlet
   *.jsf


   
      FacesServlet
      *.mk
   


 
  10
 
 
 
  Restrict access to JSP pages
  
   Restrict access to JSP pages
     
  
  
   With no roles defined, no access granted
  
 
 
  BASIC