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What are you talking about here? Nobody uses pure JSF these days. None of your mentioned problems is a problem anymore.

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipeal/archive/2008/03/spring_icefaces.html

You may install the Maven2 plugin for Eclipse:

http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org/

Create a Maven project and copy the files to your new Eclipse project. Although, it is a Maven project you can use...

Not a full example, but maybe helpful to get the next steps:

http://blog.rainer.eschen.name/2006/11/14/howto-secure-jsf-via-springacegi/