Hi guys, sure we would want to have this!
@Leonardo: can you take care of this high priority (next to your optimization and performance improvement work)? best regards, Martin On 8/4/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Would you like to see MyFaces Core ship with JBoss AS6? If so, read on. > > If you've been around MyFaces awhile, you probably remember that > JBoass AS used to ship with MyFaces instead of Mojarra. It was > regrettable, but at the time Mojarra was far ahead spec-wise and the > powers that be decided my time would be better spent integrating > Mojarra instead of improving MyFaces. > > However, with JBoss AS6 M4, this is no longer an "either or" > proposition. Both MyFaces and Mojarra can live side-by-side. The > application can decide which implementation to use: > http://community.jboss.org/wiki/JSFonJBossAS6 > > What's more, changing the default JSF implementation for AS6 is just a > matter of changing the defaultJSFConfig property in an XML file. > > I've talked internally at JBoss about adding MyFaces to the JBoss AS > community distribution. Some were for it, and some were very, very > for it. Nobody so far is against it. > > The good part is that I don't think it's a lot of work. It's probably > just three or four classes that implement SPI's that I'm guessing > MyFaces already has. > > So this is where the MyFaces Dev group comes in. MyFaces Core 2.0 > will run OK on JBoss AS6 right now. However, there is some > integration work that is needed for full JEE5 and JEE6 compliance. We > need: > * An injection provider SPI similar to Mojarra's > com.sun.faces.spi.InjectionProvider. > * The JBoss/MyFaces implementation of the SPI. I expect this will be > very similar to > org.jboss.web.jsf.integration.injection.JBossDelegatingInjectionProvider. > * An AnnotationProvider SPI similar to Mojarra's > com.sun.faces.spi.AnnotationProvider. > * A JBoss/MyFaces implementation of the SPI similar to > org.jboss.web.jsf.integration.config.JBossAnnotationProvider. > * A ServletContextListener class to call for initialization. I expect > this will extend from MyFacesServletContextListener and be very > similar to > org.jboss.web.jsf.integration.config.JBossMojarra20ConfigureListener. > > If MyFaces Dev decides to take this on, then the code will probably > live at Apache and I'll bring it into JBoss AS using Maven. I don't > have time to write and maintain the code myself but I'm happy to help > out with guidance and to do some refactoring of my code to make this > easier. BTW, the JBoss/Mojarra integration code lives here: > http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/jboss-jsf-int/trunk/jboss-faces/ > > Lastly, let me say that I can't make hard promises right now. I don't > know if someone at JBoss/RedHat will come along and nix the idea. > However, even if we can't ship MyFaces you will have all the > integration points ready and have an easy way to "drop in" MyFaces > whenever you want to use it with JBoss AS. > > WDYT?? > > > > -- http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces
