How to integrate Spring Webflow, Spring Mobile and WURFL - spring-webflow-2

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I wonder if anyone can help. I am working on a Spring Webflow 2 app, where I would also like to integrate Spring Mobile 1.0 with WURFL 1.4.2.
I have got Webflow and Spring Mobile working together like this:
<bean id="handlerMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
<property name="order" value="1"/>
<property name="mappings">
<value>/fnol=flowController</value>
</property>
<property name="interceptors">
<list>
<bean class="org.springframework.mobile.device.DeviceResolverHandlerInterceptor" />
</list>
</property>
And then within one of my action classes I can do this:
public Event startUp(RequestContext arg0) throws Exception {
// get the http request form the webflow RequestContext
ServletExternalContext externalContext = (ServletExternalContext) arg0.getExternalContext();
HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) externalContext.getNativeRequest();
// get the Spring Mobile Device
Device currentDevice = DeviceUtils.getCurrentDevice(request);
This seems to work OK, but now I'd like to use WURFL with Spring Mobile so that I get a richer object representing the client capabilities.
This link suggests that I should be able to add a constructor to the DeviceResolverHandlerInterceptor like this:
<bean id="handlerMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
<property name="order" value="1"/>
<property name="mappings">
<value>/fnol=flowController</value>
</property>
<property name="interceptors">
<list>
<bean class="org.springframework.mobile.device.DeviceResolverHandlerInterceptor">
<constructor-arg>
<device:wurfl-device-resolver root-location="/WEB-INF/wurfl/wurfl.zip" />
</constructor-arg>
</bean>
</list>
</property>
And I define the device namespace as:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:webflow="http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config"
xmlns:device="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mobile/device"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config
http://www.springframework.org/schema/webflow-config/spring-webflow-config-2.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mobile/device
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mobile/device/spring-mobile-device-1.0.xsd" >
As far as my IDE is concerned (Eclipse) it is happy, and it deploys to wtp no problem. But when I start wtp I get the following error:
org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema namespace [http://www.springframework.org/schema/mobile/device]
Offending resource: class path resource [fnol-webContext.xml]
Bean 'handlerMapping'
-> Property 'interceptors'
-> Bean ''
-> Constructor-arg
I'm not really sure what this means. Any ideas anyone?
Appreciate any help you guys can offer,
Cheers, Nathan

Answer 1

Had a look through the github repo to see if I could discern what happened: looks like WURFL support was deliberately removed due to licensing anomalies
https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-mobile/commit/ca81c6c20f1a9e524b0150e14dab20b020676e0b
This page alludes to a separate project which would provide WURFL support: I've not found it.