I have a web application written almost entirely with Seam, and Seam manages all the web entry points to it. However, a small part of the application exposes some of the same functionality used by web clients through SOAP-based web services.  I have developed this using Spring Web Services.

The two components--the web entry-point component and the web service component--are largely separated from each other.  Still, I will be injecting some Seam components into my Spring WS beans to do the work of the service.

I have developed an XML schema for the service and used SWS' capabilities to publish a WSDL as part of the Seam web application deployment.  That works just fine.  I can deploy and look at the WSDL under the web application context through the browser perfectly.  The issue comes up when I try to inject my Seam component into the actual service.

I have included jboss-seam-ioc.jar in my deployment, and here is the relevant portion of my Spring configuration file (where the Seam component is named search):

    <bean id="searchService" class="com.myapp.web.ws.search.SearchService">
        <property name="search" ref="internalSearch"/>
    </bean>
    <seam:instance id="internalSearch" name="search"/>

When I deploy the application with the Seam stuff in the Spring config file and then try to view the WSDL, I get this error:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: No application context active
     at org.jboss.seam.Component.forName(Component.java:1912)
     at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1972)
     at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1950)
     at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1944)
     at org.jboss.seam.Component.getInstance(Component.java:1939)
     at org.jboss.seam.ioc.spring.SeamTargetSource.getTarget(SeamTargetSource.java:85)
     at org.jboss.seam.ioc.spring.SeamFactoryBean.createInstance(SeamFactoryBean.java:97)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.config.AbstractFactoryBean.getObject(AbstractFactoryBean.java:146)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport$1.run(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:121)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.doGetObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:116)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.getObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:98)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getObjectForBeanInstance(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1288)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:275)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:185)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:164)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:269)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:104)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1245)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1010)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:472)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:380)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:264)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:261)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:185)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:164)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:269)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:104)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1245)

Here is the relevant part of my web.xml file:

    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/spring-beans.xml</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <!-- Seam -->
    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamListener</listener-class>
    </listener>
    <listener>
        <listener-class>com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener</listener-class>
    </listener>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>Seam Filter</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter</filter-class>
    </filter>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>Seam Filter</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Seam Resource Servlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamResourceServlet</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Seam Resource Servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/seam/resource/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <!-- Faces Servlet -->
    <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>*.html</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <!-- Spring Web Services -->
    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>ws</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>ws</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/services</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>ws</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.wsdl</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>ws</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.ws</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

Any insight into where I am off with the configuration is appreciated. 

Thanks.