Hi Stan,
I built latest AS from you branch on Github but when I deploy a RichFaces app, I get this error:
Unable to process annotations for url, vfs:/content/simpleapp.war/WEB-INF/lib/richfaces-components-ui-4.3.0-20121120.101714-220.jar/META-INF/faces-config.xml. Reason: java.util.zip.ZipException: zip file is empty
13:42:47,713 SEVERE [javax.enterprise.resource.webcontainer.jsf.config] (MSC service thread 1-5) : java.util.zip.ZipException: zip file is empty
Is it ready for deploying apps?