How to @Autowire a BeanFactory in a Managed Bean(JSF)

Question

When I need a BeanFactory in a bean managed by Spring, I use:

private @Autowired BeanFactory factory;

How can I achive this in a Managed Bean? I have tried:

 @ManagedProperty(value = "#{BeanFactory}")
private BeanFactory beanFactory;// (the property has getters and setters)

But the property is null.

I have an EL resolver in faces-config:

<el-resolver>
        org.springframework.web.jsf.el.SpringBeanFacesELResolver
</el-resolver>

Thank you and sorry for my poor english :)

Answer 1

It appears that your @ManagedProperty markup may have been the problem, in that (value = "#{BeanFactory}") should have been (value = "#{beanFactory}") , unless your BeanFactory class was specifically named "BeanFactory" in the @ManagedBean markup within it.

By default, beans annotated with @ManagedBean will be mapped to their class name, but the first character will be lower case, eg: "BeanFactory" becomes mapped as "beanFactory", FooBean becomes "fooBean".