can i use JSF tags w/in my Spring MVC views

is it possible to use JSF tags inside my JSP that i used as my view for my Spring MVC application?

i tried putting just a simple tag <f:view></f:view>

and my application would thrown an exception

Code:

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2005-08-31 11&#58;07&#58;21,437 ERROR &#91;org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet&#93; - <Could
 not complete request>
javax.servlet.jsp.JspException&#58; Cannot find FacesContext
        at com.caucho.jsp.PageContextImpl.handlePageException&#40;PageContextImpl.java&#58;957&#41;
        at _jsp._web_22dinf._jsp._billing_220cycle__jsp._jspService&#40;_billing_220cycle__jsp
.java&#58;81&#41;
        at com.caucho.jsp.JavaPage.service&#40;JavaPage.java&#58;75&#41;
        at com.caucho.jsp.Page.pageservice&#40;Page.java&#58;571&#41;
        at com.caucho.server.dispatch.PageFilterChain.doFilter&#40;PageFilterChain.java&#58;155&#41;
        at com.caucho.server.webapp.DispatchFilterChain.doFilter&#40;DispatchFilterChain.java&#58;
129&#41;
        at com.caucho.server.dispatch.ServletInvocation.service&#40;ServletInvocation.java&#58;221
&#41;
        at com.caucho.server.webapp.RequestDispatcherImpl.forward&#40;RequestDispatcherImpl.ja
va&#58;272&#41;
        at com.caucho.server.webapp.RequestDispatcherImpl.forward&#40;RequestDispatcherImpl.ja
va&#58;112&#41;
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView.renderMergedOutputMod
el&#40;InternalResourceView.java&#58;97&#41;
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render&#40;AbstractView.java&#58;250&#41;

        at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render&#40;DispatcherServlet.java
&#58;928&#41;
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch&#40;DispatcherServlet.
java&#58;705&#41;
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService&#40;DispatcherServlet.j
ava&#58;625&#41;
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.serviceWrapper&#40;FrameworkServle
t.java&#58;386&#41;
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet&#40;FrameworkServlet.java&#58;34
6&#41;
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service&#40;HttpServlet.java&#58;126&#41;
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service&#40;HttpServlet.java&#58;103&#41;
        at com.caucho.server.dispatch.ServletFilterChain.doFilter&#40;ServletFilterChain.java&#58;
113&#41;
        at com.caucho.server.cache.CacheFilterChain.doFilter&#40;CacheFilterChain.java&#58;211&#41;
        at com.caucho.server.webapp.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter&#40;WebAppFilterChain.java&#58;177&#41;

        at com.caucho.server.dispatch.ServletInvocation.service&#40;ServletInvocation.java&#58;221
&#41;
        at com.caucho.server.http.HttpRequest.handleRequest&#40;HttpRequest.java&#58;263&#41;
        at com.caucho.server.port.TcpConnection.run&#40;TcpConnection.java&#58;331&#41;
        at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.runTasks&#40;ThreadPool.java&#58;464&#41;
        at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.run&#40;ThreadPool.java&#58;408&#41;
        at java.lang.Thread.run&#40;Thread.java&#58;595&#41;
Caused by&#58; javax.servlet.jsp.JspException&#58; Cannot find FacesContext
        at javax.faces.webapp.UIComponentTag.doStartTag&#40;UIComponentTag.java&#58;405&#41;
        at com.sun.faces.taglib.jsf_core.ViewTag.doStartTag&#40;ViewTag.java&#58;105&#41;
        at _jsp._web_22dinf._jsp._billing_220cycle__jsp._jspService&#40;_billing_220cycle__jsp
.java&#58;36&#41;

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what special configuration that i would have to add to make this work. or is it really possible to combine the two, Spring MVC and JSF.

thanks

No, you can't, if you want to use JSF, you have to stick with it as your controller.