[jsr-314-open] [www.javaserverfaces.org] A couple of things

[Dan Allen]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:44 PM, David Geary <clarity.training at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/12/10 Lincoln Baxter, III <lincolnbaxter at gmail.com>
>
>> Even better, why not use/recommend embedded glassfish as the ultimate
>> quick-start through maven?
>>
> +1
>
> However, we also need to make sure we don't leave the many Tomcat users out
> in the cold.
>
> One thing I'd like to see covered--that I'd like to know how to do myself,
> in fact--is using the latest version of the EL (so that developers can pass
> params to action methods, for example), and using bean validation with JSF 2
> in Tomcat.
>
> That stuff is built into Glassfish, but I have no idea where the official
> JARs are for those things, and even if I knew that, I have no idea what to
> do with them (just drop them in Tomcat's WEB-INF/lib? Will that work? Has
> anyone tried that?).
>

That's exactly what these archetypes provide (namely servlet-minimal)
(except we having moved to EL 2.2 yet, that is on our TODO list).

http://sfwk.org/Documentation/WeldQuickstartForMavenUsers

The Weld part adds CDI for servlet containers (really, it is amazingly
lightweight) and some nice build helpers. Please give a try (or wait a week
until we have it in Maven central repo).

-Dan

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