ComponentManager injection in 2.2?

(Sorry for all the questions... can you tell I am switching all my code
from covers to Spring injection?)

I am injecting the Component Manager and I keep ending up with a null
pointer exception. I have tried injecting it into the backing bean using
my faces-config like so:

<managed-property>
<description>componentManager</description>
<property-name>componentManager</property-name>
<value>#{Components["org.sakaiproject.component.api.ComponentManager"]}<
/value>
</managed-property>

And using my spring file like so:
<bean id="backingBean"
class="edu.vt.sakai.tool.BackingBean">
<property name="componentManager">
<ref bean="org.sakaiproject.component.api.ComponentManager" />
</property>
</bean>

If I use the cover (org.sakaiproject.component.cover.ComponentManager) I
get a nice non-null ComponentManager.

Is there anything obviously wrong with my code?
-AZ

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Aaron Zeckoski (aaronz@xxxxxx)
Lead Developer - Learning Technologies - Virginia Tech

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