This issue is resolved. I didn't have jboss-seam-ioc.jar file in my classpath (not mentioned in the document). Here is the resolution. Seam-Spring integration :- Spring framework integration module of Seam requires the jboss-seam-ioc.jar file to be in the classpath. The Spring bean injection would work otherwise also if you have the DelegatingVariableResolver configured in faces-config.xml. But the spring:context-loader component won't work without the ioc jar and the spring context wont be loaded at all unless you have the ContextLoaderListener configured in the web.xml). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4097599#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...