Dependency Injection in Validators

[Cedric Hurst]

Hello all... does anyone know if it's possible to use dependency injection
inside JSF validators?  My code is as follows:

package com.ibm.wasce.customerLocator.web.jsf;

import javax.ejb.EJB;
import javax.faces.validator.Validator;
import javax.faces.validator.ValidatorException;
import javax.faces.application.FacesMessage;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;

import com.ibm.wasce.customerLocator.ejb.interfaces.CustomerBeanLocal;

public class CustomerNumberValidator implements Validator {
        @EJB(name="CustomerBeanLocal")
        CustomerBeanLocal customerSessionBean;
        
        public void validate(FacesContext context, UIComponent component, Object
value) throws ValidatorException {
                System.out.println(customerSessionBean);
                 
if(customerSessionBean.findCustomerByCustomerNumber((String)value) !=
null) {
                         FacesMessage message =
MessageGenerator.getCustomerNumberAlreadyExistsMessage();
                         throw new ValidatorException(message);
            }
         }
}


The problem is that customerSessionBean is coming up as null.  Of course,
this behavior makes sense because the validator is not a managed bean.  But
is there a way to treat it as if it was?
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