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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p>Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p>
                        <p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>how would tooling know which jars to include/refer to for proper classpath setup ?</p></div><p>                   </p></blockquote><p>The default is still the default.  So for now, the default impl is the one in the "main" slots in the com.sun.jsf-impl and javax.faces.api modules.  </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>If the developer uses the <code class="jive-code jive-xml">JSF_CONFIG_NAME<span class="jive-xml-tag"> </span></code>context param, then you will use the jars in the slot specified.  We have this problem already.   In AS7.0.x forward, you can use the value of "Mojarra-1.2" to refer to the "1.2" slot that ships with AS7.  I'm just reusing that context param to let you specify more slots.  </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>So the short answer for now is, you have to look at web.xml.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>The next step in multi-JSF will be to add two attributes to the JSF subsystem.  The first is a read-only attribute that lists all of the installed JSF implementations.  The second is a read/write attribute that allows you to change the default JSF implementation.  So I can imagine a tool that reads the list and presents the user with a choice of implementations.  Then it fills in the context param appropriately.</p></div>
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