Richfaces PLUS Spring Framework ??

[balteo]

Hello,

I am looking for feedback about the spring framework used together with Richfaces. The idea is that I want to do away with ejb3 and use spring for the middle tier. However I want to keep using Richfaces as I find it a powerful library of components.

I am new to Spring but not to Richfaces/JSF.

Can anyone please advise me on the do's and dont's. Any interesting feedback.

Should I use spring web flow?

Thanks in advance,

Julien.

[akakunin]

Do not used Spring WebFlow.
About Spring + RichFaces (and JSF in general) - we are using it in many projects and it works fine!

Check Spring Documentation about integration with JSF (Spring provides integration with JSF so, JSF is using Spring-defined beans) and everything should work well :)

[mjdenham]

Hi Alexey,

I was interested that you recommended not to use Spring WebFlow. Did you have bad experiences?

We also tried and rejected WebFlow because of integration difficulties but I wondered if it was due to my lack of experience with it.

Regards

Martin

[lbbishop]

I am using Spring WebFlow 1.1 (and thus Spring 2), Facelets, and RichFaces 3.1.0 successfully.

Spring webflow is very useful in wizard and master/slave use cases and the ability to use a conversation scope (instead of session) is invaluable.

I do intend to upgrade to WebFlow 2.0 (m1) soon.

The only remaining problem I have is handling the "no conversation scope" exception that occurs when session timeout occurs. A webflow listener must be defined to catch this exception.

[balteo]

Hello,
Has any one of you encountered problems whilst using jsf features such as binding a component to a variable in a class : I know how to do that with a managed bean but I am afraid it will not work with a spring web flow variable.
Can I still use managed beans and keep this in my face config:

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

Julien.

[marc1]

hi,

i definetely encourage you to use spring webflow - together with spring its just a powerful and flexible combination - no need for seam at all, which is just to heavy for many applications. we just deployed successfully an application using richfaces, spring webflow, facelets and myfaces.

greetings. marcelo

[balteo]

I have indeed tested SWF and find it really powerful.
Thanks for your advice Marcelo.
J.