Deploying JARs to JBoss AS 7 w/ JSF

[meetoblivion]

Hi All,

We're trying to build out a very modular application, with cross JAR EJB references and such.  As a part of it, we're interested in deploying a number of JARs that contain parts of the application (makes patching/bug fixing easier), however we also want to put in JSF for UI.  Is it possible to activate JSF in a JAR deployment in JBoss AS 7.1?

[ssilvert]

Yes.  If the jar has JSF artifacts then JSF will be activated.

Stan

[meetoblivion]

Stan,

Thanks for the answer (I was actually told to ask you :-) )

My JAR has the following:

META-INF/beans.xml

META-INF/faces-config.xml

META-INF/resources/somefacelet.xhtml

META-INF/web-fragment.xml (which includes references to FacesServlet)

META-INF/jboss-deployment-structure.xml

however, JSF still does not activate.  What else could I enable to turn it on?

[ssilvert]

Is that jar in WEB-INF/lib?  If so then JSF should be activated based on the FacesServlet found in the web-fragment.xml.

Stan

[meetoblivion]

No, the JAR is deployed directly to AS.

[ssilvert]

John Ament wrote:

No, the JAR is deployed directly to AS.

I guess I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish.  JSF is a servlet-based technology.  It has to run inside a WAR.

Stan