Yes, shipping an application with JSF included generally works fine. We have a number of deployments on different Tomcat versions, and test a lot on Jetty too.
It does get problematic when you're trying to ship the same war to clients using different containers, where some are full EE and some only servlet spec. You will find you can't easily configure some of the full EE containers to do child first or isolated classloading so you get version incompatibilities when they also provide JSF. I'd echo Matthew's comments on JSF and Richfaces in general, we consider it legacy and won't be using it for anything new. regards Brian On 29 November 2012 20:32, Matthew Farwell <matthewjfarw...@gmail.com>wrote: > Yes, I've done this, using JSF/Richfaces, deployed to Tomcat. Tomcat is > the standard for this particular client, and this application was one of a > number of JSF applications deployed on Tomcat. This was an internal > intranet application, which wasn't exposed to the internet. > > Apart from not liking the technology and having lots of problems to do > with the jsf lifecycle and its interaction with Richfaces, it's been > reliable enough in production. > > Matthew Farwell. > > On Thursday, 29 November 2012 17:34:34 UTC+1, Jan Goyvaerts wrote: >> >> It has been brought to my attention it is possible to deploy a war file >> including a complete JSF implementation. On a server actually not >> containing any JSF libraries. I always thought it was mandatory to deploy >> your JSF application on a JSF-compliant application server. >> >> Checking the questions on SO, it looks like people are actually doing >> this on Tomcat and Jetty. >> >> I was wondering whether this is standard practice. And whether it is >> reliable. >> >> Does anybody in here have practical experience with this ? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jan >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/SxJ_tXTJlZ0J. > > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
