JSF/Spring managing beans

[horri khaled]

Hi,
I want to integrate JSF 2 with Spring 3, I find in several books and web sites some tips to do that, I follow instructions step by step and the war is deployed successfully where the welcome page
is displayed, but when I click on the button to execute an action I get this error:

 09:26:40,160 WARNING [javax.enterprise.resource.webcontainer.jsf.lifecycle] /register.xhtml @16,99 value="#{userBean.firstName}": Target Unreachable, identifier 'userBean' resolved to null: javax.el.PropertyNotFoundException: /register.xhtml @16,99 value="#{userBean.firstName}": Target Unreachable, identifier 'userBean' resolved to null
	at com.sun.faces.facelets.el.TagValueExpression.getType(TagValueExpression.java:93) [:2.0.2-FCS]
	at com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.HtmlBasicInputRenderer.getConvertedValue(HtmlBasicInputRenderer.java:95) [:2.0.2-FCS]
	at javax.faces.component.UIInput.getConvertedValue(UIInput.java:1008) [:2.0.2-FCS]
	at javax.faces.component.UIInput.validate(UIInput.java:934) [:2.0.2-FCS]
	at javax.faces.component.UIInput.executeValidate(UIInput.java:1189) [:2.0.2-FCS]
	at javax.faces.component.UIInput.processValidators(UIInput.java:691) [:2.0.2-FCS]
	at javax.faces.component.UIForm.processValidators(UIForm.java:243) [:2.0.2-FCS]
	at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.processValidators(UIComponentBase.java:1080) [:2.0.2-FCS]
	at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.processValidators(UIComponentBase.java:1080) [:2.0.2-FCS]
	at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processValidators(UIViewRoot.java:1180) [:2.0.2-FCS]
	at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.ProcessValidationsPhase.execute(ProcessValidationsPhase.java:76) [:2.0.2-FCS]
	at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101) [:2.0.2-FCS]
	at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:118) [:2.0.2-FCS]
	at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:312) [:2.0.2-FCS]
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:336) [:6.0.0.20100429-M3]
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:242) [:6.0.0.20100429-M3]
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:293) [:6.0.0.20100429-M3]
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) [:6.0.0.20100429-M3]
	at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:183) [:6.0.0.20100429-M3]
	at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:95) [:6.0.0.20100429-M3]
	at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.process(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:126) [:6.0.0.20100429-M3]
	at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.invoke(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:70) [:6.0.0.20100429-M3]
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) [:6.0.0.20100429-M3]
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) [:6.0.0.20100429-M3]
	at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:158) [:6.0.0.20100429-M3]
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) [:6.0.0.20100429-M3]
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:368) [:6.0.0.20100429-M3]
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:872) [:6.0.0.20100429-M3]
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:653) [:6.0.0.20100429-M3]
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:951) [:6.0.0.20100429-M3]
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) [:1.6.0_16]   

My Configuration looks like :
web.xml:

 <?xml version="1.0"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
	version="2.4">
    <display-name>Sampleweb</display-name>
	<description>MyProject web.xml</description>
	<context-param>
        <param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>
        <param-value>Development</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <context-param>
        <param-name>facesConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/jsf/faces-config.xml </param-value>
    </context-param>
     
    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/web-application-config.xml </param-value>
    </context-param>
    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextClass</param-name>
         <param-value>
             org.jboss.spring.vfs.context.VFSXmlWebApplicationContext
        </param-value>
    </context-param>
    <listener>       
     <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener>
     
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

	<!-- Welcome files -->
	<welcome-file-list>
		<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
		<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
	</welcome-file-list>

</web-app>   

faces-config.xml located in WEB-INF/jsf:

<faces-config xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_2_0.xsd"
version="2.0">

<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>userBean</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>com.integradis.UserBean</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
<managed-property>
<property-name>userService</property-name>
<value>#{userService}</value>
</managed-property>

</managed-bean>

<application>
<el-resolver>org.springframework.web.jsf.el.SpringBeanFacesELResolver</el-resolver>
</application>
<!--
<application>
<view-handler>com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler</view-handler>
</application>

<application>
<variable-resolver>
org.springframework.web.jsf.DelegatingVariableResolver
</variable-resolver>
</application>
-->
</faces-config>

web-application-config.xml located in WEB-INF/spring:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd">
    
<import resource="web-datasource.xml"/>
<bean id="userService" class="com.integradis.UserService"/>

</beans>  

I use Jboss 6 as a runtime server

Any Help is appreciated

Regards
Horri