Actually you raise some valid points here, at least for the myfaces subprojects we have this matrix:
http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/CompatibilityMatrix?highlight=%28matrix%29 I personally think such a combined matrix is only maintainable in a wiki way if you do not have a central testing ground for those things. Might be a good idea to open a central matrix on one of the wikis somewhere for intra project dependenies. Werner Carsten Kaiser schrieb: > Let me comment on this from a newbie's point of view: > We started using JSF with a little project this year and we really went > through all this pains/problems, which caused the project almost to fail > at all... > I think, it is not the common JSF or even the MyFaces documentation > responsible for that, but the lack of any documentation about the > interdependencies between all the different modules/implementations! The > JSF specification defines very flexible extension mechanism, e.g. the > chain of variable resolvers, and each of the modules uses them in its own > way, which results in situations, where plugging in a new module means to > break other functionality, you have just hardly managed to be working > correctly. And that does not happen only when using different libraries > but also within one library itself. So one configuration might be suitable > for the first component, but is definitely not for the next one. This > problem is hard to solve especially when several people working in > parallel on a library/module in a not really coordinated way! > > So maybe it would be helpful, if beside any xdoc documentation providing > detailed information about a component there would be some kind of central > dependency matrix allowing each one to figure out which components work > together safely within a certain configuration scenario, e.g. server side > state handling etc.! Unfortunately, I guess, such a matrix cannot be > maintained by any interested user like the Wiki, since this requires a lot > of inside know how about the whole implementation. > > BTW: Congratulations! I think, everyone of you does a great job within > this project! > > Regards, > CAK > > >
