Hi,
I think if you used the "metadata-complete="true"" atributte in faces-config.xml your classpath isn't scanned by JSF. This happened with me. I use spring too and I set this property to disable JSF scan. Than Spring can manage my Beans. But I need to set my other configs (validators, converters, listeners manually in faces-config. This isn't good, but I hadn't time to see this question better.
Cheers.
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