Hi! I found the problem.
I requested the "to-be-decorated" application within my constructor which failed as with an JSF 1.1. compiled class the FacesContext is required to find the JSF 1.2 default application implementation. JSF 1.2 will then dispatch the new methods to the default implementation automatically - _instead to the decorated one_. Which means, if you have a JSF 1.1. Application in the chain, inheritance do not work as expected as JSF 1.2 methods are not dispatched to the decorated application but to the default implementation. In MyFaces I can't find such a behavior at all, isn't it defined by the spec? I event can't use the proxy based solution as the Application isn't an interface and using AOP fails as the com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationAssociate checks that it hasn't been instantiated twice. (via ASSOCIATE_KEY in the application map) It's odd. Ciao, Mario
