Make build environment support JSF RI 1.2 as an option for the JSF dependency

• Key: SHALE-221
• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Wendy Smoak
• Reporter: Craig McClanahan
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.4

Description

Version 1.2 of the JSF RI is available in a Maven repository at java.net, so it should be made possible to optionally build Shale against this version as well as MyFaces 1.1 (the default) and the JSF RI 1.1.

Comments

[Wendy Smoak]

Is there a released version? I only see snapshots here: https://maven-repository.dev.java.net/repository/javax.faces/jars/

[Craig McClanahan]

Grumble ... no, snapshots are all there are at the moment. I'll try to address that internally when I return from vacation (Monday, July 23)) ... in the mean time, setting it up for the latest snapshot is the best we can do.

[Wendy Smoak]

Done using the available snapshots and JSP 2.1 from Mortbay: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=422615&view=rev

We'll leave this open until the correct jars are available.

Resolving this issue is going to require (1) a non-SNAPSHOT version of the JSF RI 1.2 api and impl poms, and (2) a way to reference the new unified EL apis via Maven. I have filed the following issues against the JSF RI project at java.net to track these two issues:

https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=361
https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=362

[Craig McClanahan]

The code for choosing the JSF implementation to use has been migrated out of the shale-parent POM (all of the core libraries are compiled against the MyFaces 1.1 APIs) into shale-apps-parent. You can compile all the apps against the MyFaces 1.1 implementation (by default), or the JSF 1.1 RI with:

  mvn -Djsf=ri clean install

or the JSF 1.2 RI with:

  mvn -Djsf=ri12 clean install