Spring <= 1.3 does not support session scoped components right now. There are plans for integrating this in the Spring 2.0 release. Right now, you will have to use Spring Session Components Workarounds. Spring 2.0 release will add support for this, and tests with Spring 2.0M3 (beta) are reported to work quite well. Please refer to Spring Session Components Workarounds to read more about this topic.