Seam supports this kind of injection via @in and @out annotations
http://www.javabeat.net/jboss-seam/2007/06/jboss-seam-introduction/
Another way would be to integrate Spring + JSF.
Yet another way would be to manage business layer with Spring and then you
an instance of a bean which implements ApplicationContextAware to get you
any spring bean reference to any other bean not managed by Spring.
~madhav
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Cedric Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Hello all... does anyone know if it's possible to use dependency injection
> inside JSF validators? My code is as follows:
>
> package com.ibm.wasce.customerLocator.web.jsf;
>
> import javax.ejb.EJB;
> import javax.faces.validator.Validator;
> import javax.faces.validator.ValidatorException;
> import javax.faces.application.FacesMessage;
> import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
> import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;
>
> import com.ibm.wasce.customerLocator.ejb.interfaces.CustomerBeanLocal;
>
> public class CustomerNumberValidator implements Validator {
> @EJB(name="CustomerBeanLocal")
> CustomerBeanLocal customerSessionBean;
>
> public void validate(FacesContext context, UIComponent component,
> Object
> value) throws ValidatorException {
> System.out.println(customerSessionBean);
>
> if(customerSessionBean.findCustomerByCustomerNumber((String)value)
> !=
> null) {
> FacesMessage message =
> MessageGenerator.getCustomerNumberAlreadyExistsMessage();
> throw new ValidatorException(message);
> }
> }
> }
>
>
> The problem is that customerSessionBean is coming up as null. Of course,
> this behavior makes sense because the validator is not a managed bean.
> But
> is there a way to treat it as if it was?
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