Problems with Spring Security and JSF2

[Janes Smith]

Hi All
I'm trying to build in spring security into jsf2, both I'm new too.

I get the following errors every time I attempt to authenticate an invalid user.
(i.e. In the class:LoginBean method:doLogin after the return null)

My login.jspx is under WebRoot\faces

HTTP 404 Not Found displays in the browser.

Console display:-
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.shale.remoting.impl.MappingImpl.viewId(MappingImpl.java:260)

Not sure what I'm doing wrong .

file:LoginBean.java

    
public class LoginBean {
	
	public String doLogin() throws IOException, ServletException {
		ExternalContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance()
				.getExternalContext();

		RequestDispatcher dispatcher = ((ServletRequest) context.getRequest())
				.getRequestDispatcher("/j_spring_security_check");

		dispatcher.forward((ServletRequest) context.getRequest(),
				(ServletResponse) context.getResponse());

		FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().responseComplete();

		return null;
	}

}

file:applicationContext-security.xml

    
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
    xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
                         http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
                        http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
                         http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.1.xsd">


	<global-method-security secured-annotations="enabled"/>

	<http auto-config="true" access-denied-page="/accessDenied.jsp">

		<intercept-url pattern="/faces/protected**" access="ROLE_USER,ROLE_ADMIN, ROLE_MANAGER" />
		<intercept-url pattern="/**" access="IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY" />


		<form-login
			login-processing-url="/j_spring_security_check"
			login-page="/faces/login.jsf"
			default-target-url="/"
			authentication-failure-url="/faces/login.jsf" />
		<logout
			logout-url="/logout*"
			logout-success-url="/" />

	</http>
	     
   
   <authentication-provider>
		<password-encoder
			hash="md5" />
		<user-service>
			<user
				name="rod"
				password="a564de63c2d0da68cf47586ee05984d7"
				authorities="ROLE_SUPERVISOR, ROLE_USER, ROLE_TELLER" />
			<user
				name="dianne"
				password="65d15fe9156f9c4bbffd98085992a44e"
				authorities="ROLE_USER,ROLE_TELLER" />
			<user
				name="scott"
				password="2b58af6dddbd072ed27ffc86725d7d3a"
				authorities="ROLE_USER" />
			<user
				name="peter"
				password="22b5c9accc6e1ba628cedc63a72d57f8"
				authorities="ROLE_USER" />
		</user-service>
	</authentication-provider>     
      
        
</beans:beans>

file:login.jspx

    
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<jsp:root
	version="2.0"
	xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
	xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core"
	xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
	xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
	xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core">

	<jsp:directive.page
		contentType="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"
		pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"
		session="false" />
	<jsp:output
		doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
		doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"
		doctype-root-element="html"
		omit-xml-declaration="false" />

	<f:view>
		<h:messages />
		<h:form
			id="loginForm"
			prependId="false">
			<label for="j_username"><h:outputText value="Username:" /><br />
			</label>
			<h:inputText
				id="j_username"
				required="true">
			</h:inputText>

			<br />
			<br />
			<label for="j_password"><h:outputText value="Password:" /><br />
			</label>
			<h:inputSecret
				id="j_password"
				required="true">
			</h:inputSecret>

			<br />
			<br />
			<label for="_spring_security_remember_me"> <h:outputText
				value="Remember me" /> </label>
			<h:selectBooleanCheckbox id="_spring_security_remember_me" />
			<br />

			<h:commandButton
				type="submit"
				id="login"
				action="#{loginBean.doLogin}"
				value="Login" />

		</h:form>
	</f:view>
</jsp:root>