NPE when invoking getter of managed property

Question

I am learning Spring with Hibernate and am creating a movie rental application using JSF as front end framework.

I have an application scoped managed property in my

Answer 1

This post helped me to make the code work : http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2012/04/jsf-2-primefaces-3-spring-3-hibernate-4.html

However, the code does not work if I keep the Registration Bean as view scoped. Can anyone please help me figure out the reason for the same?

UPDATE: Found the solution for the ViewScope issue : http://blog.harezmi.com.tr/spring-view-scope-for-jsf-2-users/