this module makes the integration of spring-annotation and JSF really easy.
* It registers automatically a VariableResolver in the JSF stack to enable the use of the spring beans as managed beans
* it adds 2 (two) more scopes to spring framework: flash and conversation
* it registers a navigation handler in the JSF stack to enable you to write less code
* it adds some annotations to make it easier to write JSF code
Apache MyFaces Orchestra aims to provide a simple way to combine a web-framework with a persistence layer. Typically, an Apache MyFaces Orchestra stack might combine JavaServer Faces, Spring and a JPA implementation like Toplink, Hibernate, etc.
The underlying idea is to provide long persistence sessions to the web-developer - this is done by associating these sessions with a conversational context.
The conversational context is opened when the bean configured for this context is first loaded. It can be manually closed by the programmer, plus a time-out can be configured as a global parameter.