just for the record - I've been charged to investigate the feasibility to ship JSF2 this way on a non-JSF compliant server. :-)
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Jan Goyvaerts <java.arti...@gmail.com>wrote: > You guys are talking about JSF 1 ? > > I thought only JSF 1 was terrible. But JSF 2 isn't. But then again, I > never used JSF. > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Brian Smith <bmjsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > -- 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.
