Spring Webflow JSF View Location - jsf

Question

i´m trying to setup a JSF application with Spring Web Flow.
I´m using Spring 3.1
Spring faces 2.3.1
JSF (api,impl) 2.1.6
My problem is the following that the program is not taking the correct
location of my jsf views.
I have found some tutorials like
or http://dgparsons.org/jsf-and-spring-webflow.html
for integrating jsf and spring web flow.
In one of these view resolving is done with:
<bean id="faceletsViewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.faces.mvc.JsfView"/>
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views" />
<property name="suffix" value=".xhtml" />
</bean>
And so I put my xhtml files in the folder /WEB-INF/views/
My Flow is in the directory /WEB-INF/config/flow/start.flow
When I gave it a try the program always wants to open the start.xhtml
from the folder /WEB-INF/config/flow/start.xhtml
So it seems it is completly ignoring the UrlBasedViewResolver.
My FlowBuilderServices is configured as following:
<beans:bean id="flowBuilderServices"
class="org.springframework.webflow.engine.builder.support.FlowBuilderServices">
...
<beans:property name="viewFactoryCreator">
<beans:bean
class="org.springframework.faces.webflow.JsfViewFactoryCreator" />
</beans:property>
...
</beans:bean>
In the tutorials there is no JsfViewFactoryCreator and I cant find a tutorial about it.
As from the javadoc JsfViewFactoryCreator/JsfViewFactory is responsible for the RESTORE_VIEW phase.
So I dived into the source code of the getView() Method of the JsfViewFactory.
JsfViewFactory.java
In line 105
UIViewRoot viewRoot = viewHandler.restoreView(facesContext, viewName);
a FlowViewHandler is called, which generates the wrong path relative to the path of my flow files.
resourcePath = resolveResourcePath(RequestContextHolder.getRequestContext(), viewId);
So my question is now. How can I associate the UrlBasedViewResolver correctly with the flowRegistry/flowbuilderservices so that it takes /WEB-INF/views/*.xthml as my path to the xhtml files.
Or if it is maybe old fashioned to use UrlBasedViewResolver (as I didnt see it in the spring web flow documentation for jsf) how can the webflow beans be configured correctly to use the directories i defined.
For completeness here is my webflow-config.xml file
<!-- Executes flows: the central entry point into the Spring Web Flow system -->
<flow-executor id="flowExecutor">
<flow-execution-listeners>
<listener ref="facesContextListener" />
<listener ref="securityListener" />
</flow-execution-listeners>
</flow-executor>
<!-- The registry of executable flow definitions -->
<flow-registry id="flowRegistry" flow-builder-services="flowBuilderServices"
base-path="/WEB-INF/config/flow">
<flow-location-pattern value="/*.xml" />
</flow-registry>
<beans:bean id="flowBuilderServices"
class="org.springframework.webflow.engine.builder.support.FlowBuilderServices">
<beans:property name="expressionParser">
<beans:bean
class="org.springframework.webflow.expression.el.WebFlowELExpressionParser">
<beans:constructor-arg>
<beans:bean class="com.sun.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl" />
</beans:constructor-arg>
</beans:bean>
</beans:property>
<beans:property name="viewFactoryCreator">
<beans:bean
class="org.springframework.faces.webflow.JsfViewFactoryCreator" />
</beans:property>
<beans:property name="conversionService">
<beans:bean
class="org.springframework.binding.convert.service.DefaultConversionService">
</beans:bean>
</beans:property>
</beans:bean>

Answer 1

So finally I found the way to it myself and it was quite simple.
As written in the documentation of spring webflow under - Specifying view identifiers
Spring Webflow Documentation
the solution is to use an absolute view identifier in the flow definition:
<view-state id="enterBookingDetails" view="/WEB-INF/hotels/booking/bookingDetails.xhtml">
Thus there is no need for a URLBasedViewResolver or a special configuration of JSFViewFactoryCreator.