java server faces menu with mix of jsf and spring pages

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Hi,
I'm having a problem putting together a navigation menu for an application mixing both jsf and spring MVC controlled jsp pages. I'm writing the menu in jsf (using a myfaces navigationmenu component) - here's a snippet:

    
<x&#58;commandNavigation id="nav_2" value="#&#123;messages&#91;'rates'&#93;&#125;" >
        <x&#58;commandNavigation id="nav_2_1" value="#&#123;messages&#91;'rates_report'&#93;&#125;" action="go_rates_report" />

This 'go_rates_report' action is defined in faces-config like this:

        
<navigation-case>
            <from-outcome>go_offered_rates</from-outcome>
                      <to-view-id>/myapp/rates/offered_rates_maintenance.htm</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>

Now, I'm mapping all .htm pages to the spring resolver itself - like this:

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>myapp</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>myapp</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

However the faces menu seems not to attempt any further resolution of variables once the menu item is clicked, and I get a 'page not found' error in the jsp. I assume this is because the faces menu automatically resolves to the faces servlet, and the spring servlet is bypassed.
My questions are:
a) Does this approach to writing a menu for an app using both faces and spring pages make sense, and
b) if it does, what am I doing wrong?
and alternatively,
c) if it doesn't, does any one else have any suggestions/sample code for easily putting together an application menu that will talk to both spring and jsf pages, and integrate with each of these pages as a template?

Thanks
Denis

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FYI, I've solved this problem by using sitemesh - due to the fact that it sits in front of all controllers it plays well with both spring and jsf.