JBOSS 7.1.1.Final how to upgrade JSF

[javatwo]

Hello,

There are some bugs that were fixed in newer version of JSF. I need to replace JSF 2.1.7(coming with JBOSS) with JSF 2.1.14.

In the jboss-deployment-structure.xml,

<exclusions>

      <module name="javax.faces.api" />

      <module name="com.sun.jsf-impl" />    

</exclusions>

and include JSF2.1.14 in WEB-INF/lib.

web.xml

-----------

    <context-param>

        <param-name>org.jboss.jbossfaces.WAR_BUNDLES_JSF_IMPL</param-name>

        <param-value>true</param-value>

    </context-param>

Got exception:

com.sun.faces.config.ConfigurationException: CONFIGURATION FAILED!

     Class org.jboss.as.web.deployment.jsf.JandexAnnotationProvider is not an instance of com.sun.faces.spi.AnnotationProvider

I saw some discussions about these, but I did not see HOW-TO.

Thanks for any help.

Dave

[ssilvert]

If your only goal is to upgrade the Mojarra version then I suggest following the same procedure as in JBoss 7.1 - Migration to JSF 2.2.

In AS7.2, you will be able to do this: Design of AS7 multi-JSF feature, which lets you run several fully-integrated JSF impls in the same container.

Stan

[jbionda]

I'm working on a project that is successfully replacing JBoss 7.1.1's JSF with MyFaces 2.1.9.  We only use the context-param method in the web.xml (exactly as you have it) and do not have those exclusions in the jboss-deployment-structure.xml file.  Note that we do have an exclusion defined for the log4j module in an attempt to use our own but that isn't working -don't know why-, but it appears we don't need it to override JSF.  Also of note is that we don't have anything classloader controls in the jboss-web.xml.  For our web.xml. we use the latest web-app version and namespace defs as follows (again don't know if it matters but it's what works for us):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<web-app version="3.0"

         xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"

         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

         xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/webapp_3_0.xsd"

         xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_3_0.xsd">

    <display-name>Our product name</display-name>

    <context-param>

      <param-name>org.jboss.jbossfaces.WAR_BUNDLES_JSF_IMPL</param-name>

      <param-value>true</param-value>

    </context-param>

    <context-param>

      <param-name>javax.faces.CONFIG_FILES</param-name>

       blah, blah, blah...

Of course you need to put your new JSF lib(s) into the web-inf/lib and reconcile all proper dependent lib versions (probably not a problem with a 2.1.7 to 2.1.14 if sticking with the same JSF vendor, but worth checking them out anyway).

Good luck and hope this helps.

Jon