[jsr-314-open] deriving the name of a faces-config.xml document

[Dan Allen]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Kito Mann <kito.mann at virtua.com> wrote:

>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Kito Mann <kito.mann at virtua.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dan,
>>>
>>> How many frameworks actually use the id attribute in their
>>> faces-config.xml file? I don't remember seeing any.
>>
>>
>> It's not so much that they use it today, but they could simply add it and
>> do a new release. The alternative is to upgrade to JSF 2, which is a much
>> bigger step. The library may not even want to support JSF 2 (solely).
>>
>
> Ah, I see. And adding the <name> attribute would break the schema
> validation. So vendors will have to create a separate build to support JSF
> 2, which is annoying. However, they have to make a change either way -- it's
> just that one is more work than the other. To me, this seems like something
> we can handle in a maintenance release.
>

Excellent, except for the MR part. Perhaps the implementations can add it
now so that us framework developers can start working with it and then the
spec can follow. Ryan, can I send you a patch for Mojarra?

-Dan

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