Hi Jan-Kees,

Great :)

I am currently testing on Tomcat, Jetty, GlassFish v3 and JBoss 6!

Regards,
Jakob

2010/3/6 Jan-Kees van Andel <[email protected]>

> Hey,
>
> If it works on Jetty and Tomcat, I'd say +1 on committing the module.
>
> I can't think of big issues with committing it as a separate module. And we
> can always revert if we have to.
>
> Cool, can't wait to check it out! On what appserver are you testing this
> stuff Jakob?
>
> Regards,
> Jan-Kees
>
>
> 2010/3/6 Jakob Korherr <[email protected]>
>
> Hi guys,
>>
>> I managed to introduce the core submodule "implee6" on my local machine.
>> This new submodule includes Java EE 6 dependencies and thus you can use
>> Servlet API 3.0 and other new things in it.
>>
>> When building MyFaces, this new submodule is built before the normal impl
>> submodule. Then the .class and the .java files are "injected" into the
>> impl-build. This is very similar to how shared_impl is included in the
>> myfaces-impl build at the moment, but without recompilation.
>>
>> In this way we are able to use the new services approach of Java EE 6 to
>> get rid of the Faces Servlet entries in web.xml, because in any Java EE 6
>> container we can configure this dynamically at startup (see MYFACES-2579 for
>> details). This also works fantastically on my local machine - it's really
>> cool!
>>
>> Also with this method we are still Java EE 5 complaint, because the EE 6
>> classes just won't get loaded in a non EE 6 environment, because there are
>> no dependencies from impl or shared to them. They are only called (and
>> loaded) by a Java EE 6 container via the services definition.
>>
>> Furthermore I noticed that the Mojarra guys also include a similar
>> solution to this in their newest build!
>>
>> Now, before I commit something of this, I wanted to ask if there are any
>> objections with this proposal. If so, please tell me your concerns!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jakob
>>
>
>

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