Now this is Open Source again. Jesse will scratch his itch and provide a patch, and we will still discuss about what is the optimum in two years from now ;)
regards, Martin On 12/6/05, Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you prefer to keep a rather UGLY behaviour, th eone where you never > can be > sure in which sequence the jar-files are processed? > > It just makes it almost impossible to use a set of custom-components > from external > companies, if you need to override a renderer for example... > > I'd rather have the akward solution than chaos as it is right now... > > regards > Alexander > > PS: I prefer the solution because i already have hit that wall. It was > impossible to override > a tomahawk renderer, because of this erronous (because not > deterministic) behaviour... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Kienenberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 9:18 PM > To: MyFaces Development > Subject: Re: Require ordering of for loading META-INF/faces-config.xml > files from component jar > > Ed, I understand that you needed a short-term workaround, and I'm > overjoyed to hear you confirm to others that it's not in the spec this > way. > > I still think our time (the Myfaces committers' time) would be better > spent creating a full solution rather than implementing the > workaround. The workaround is only in JSF 1.2 anyway, and not JSF > 1.1, so any solution we create under MyFaces is going to be different > (or "incompatible") with JSF RI 1.1's loading scheme. > > However, it's open source, so whoever's doing the work is going to > determine the initial behavior. :) > > On 12/5/05, Ed Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > At the time of the original discussion, we > > > proposed better ways of > > > > handling this which should be archived in the > > > mailing list. (I think > > > > Martin and Craig were also involved at the time, > > > and we hammered out a > > > > reasonable dependency-handling approach). I'm not > > > really sure why Ed > > > > went with it the way he did because no one else > > > was happy with that > > > > approach. > > > > As I said previously, I just put this in the Sun impl > > because we had a short term need for a deterministic > > approach to loadine META-INF/faces-config.xml files. > > I agree it's not the best approach but you must agree > > that it is unobtrusive. I only intend it to be used > > in a pinch, anyway. > > > > Ed > > > > > > > > __________________________________________ > > Yahoo! DSL - Something to write home about. > > Just $16.99/mo. or less. > > dsl.yahoo.com > > > > > -- http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces
