DelegatingVariableResolver vs. SpringBeanFacesELResolver

[mraible]

What's the difference between SpringBeanFacesELResolver and DelegatingVariableResolver in 2.5? I've upgraded my app to 2.5 and JSF 1.2 and I'm still using DelegatingVariableResolver successfully. What is SpringBeanFacesELResolver useful for?

Thanks,

Matt

[djo.mos]

Hi.
It is a badly documented issue in Spring 2.5 ...
Well, DelegatingVariableResolver is the way to integrate spring with JSF 1.1 by using a variable-resolver in faces-config.xml, like this:

<application> 
  <variable-resolver> 
    org.springframework.web.jsf.DelegatingVariableResolver 
  </variable-resolver> 
</application>

But this is a deprecated method in JSF 1.2.

So, Spring 2.5 introduced a new way by using SpringBeanFacesELResolver like this:

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

Regards.