Using Mojarra 2.1.7 in JBoss As 7.1 Final

[maderhan]

Is there a way to get Mojarra 2.1.7 integrated in JBoss As 7.1 Final?

Thanks a lot.

Hans-Dieter

[ssilvert]

Not easily, but 2.1.7 will be included in AS 7.1.1, which should be out fairly soon.

Stan

[maderhan]

Ok, thank you Stan.

What about the future plan about changing JSF impl's to others than the packaged release?

Should that be possible easily in future?

Hans-Dieter

[ssilvert]

Hans-Dieter Mader wrote:

Ok, thank you Stan.

What about the future plan about changing JSF impl's to others than the packaged release?

Should that be possible easily in future?

Hans-Dieter

This can be done in a limited way with WAR_BUNDLES_JSF_IMPL.  This doesn't solve all use cases but it does cover a lot of them, especially for applications that require an old version of JSF. 

I don't know if/when we will be able to implement "truly-pluggable" JSF like we had in AS6.  It's just not a high enough priority right now.

BTW, there is actually a way to hack AS7 to upgrade to JSF 2.1.7 immediately.  You just go to modules/com/sun/jsf-impl/main and replace the bits for jsf-impl-2.1.5-jbossorg-1.jar.  I haven't actually tried it, but it will probably work.

Stan

[maderhan]

Hi Stan,

the reaplacement of jsf-impl (modules/com/sun/jsf-impl/main) worked fine for the as 7.1 CR1 release (we did it with mojarra 2.1.6)!!

Now (release 7.1 final) I replaced the modules/com/sun/jsf-impl/main/jsf-impl-2.1.5-jbossorg-1.jar with javax.faces-2.1.7.jar and modified the module.xml.

No Success, after deployment I got a number of exceptions.

Then I modified the javax.faces-2.1.7.jar file by removing the javax package out of the jar.

This seems to be the short term solution for me .

I do know that's more trial and error but it works...

Regards

Hans-Dieter

[ssilvert]

That makes sense.  Mojarra changed their packaging so api and impl are in the same jar.  Good info for others who can't wait for AS 7.1.1.

Stan