[jabailo]

According to that article

"There is no technical reason to use MyFaces Core on JBoss 4.2 or JBoss 5.x."

That seems pretty clear...although at this point MyFaces/Tomahawk is the only version that renders my dataTable.

I'm all for canonical development and using standard platforms, but at some point, the person promoting the platform has to convince me that its so much superior and easier to use that I should make the switch.

Using Eclipse+JBoss Tools+4.2.3 -- so far, I'm not convinced.   What I would expect is to be able to create a JSF project, select "Rich Faces" and be done with it.   After more than a month of trying, that just isn't the case.

If I can't use RichFaces, and I shouldn't use MyFaces -- what's left?

Should I just be using JSF 2.0 ?

Is JSF a thing in itself?  I keep seeing articles about JSF w/My Faces or JSF w/Mojarra -- so is JSF just a very base specification?

Example of a MyFaces tutorial:

http://www.coreservlets.com/JSF-Tutorial/jsf1/

[nbelaevski]

John,

JSF is a specification that has two wide-spread implementations: JSF RI & MyFaces. MyFaces Tomahawk & RichFaces are component libraries that are based on JSF specification & requires implementation of JSF specification to be available in runtime.

BTW, there's dedicated JBT forum here: http://community.jboss.org/en/jbosstools

[jabailo]

Thanks, I decided to follow up the issue in the JBoss Tools group as you suggest:

https://community.jboss.org/thread/150460