Hello Mike,
i am actually using this
<filter>
<filter-name>RequestHandled</filter-name>
<filter-class>de.mindmatters.faces.spring.support.RequestHandledFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
in your faces config you don't need to declare anything in particular in <application> tag.. just your beans and navigations.
check jsf-spring docs for which beans you would declare in jsf-config.xml as opposed to applicationContext.xml
HTH
MARCO
