SK> Also, do we need to open a new JSR for a JSF 2.x Portlet Bridge? I
> see
> SK> you have referred to the existing JSR 329 which was written for JSF
> 1.2.
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> Personally, I think we do need to open up such a JSR, and having IBM's
> support for such a JSR would be very helpful. However, what *I'm*
> trying to establish is support for a new JSR for JSF. A portlet JSR is
> another matter entirely.
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Opening a JSR for the Portlet 2.0 Bridge for JSF 2.0 is currently being
looked at. However, as JSF 2.0 has already been out for some time, its
currently felt we would better support the community by publishing a stable,
working implementation of such a bridge based on logical
extensions/migration of JSR 329 before getting into the thick of the JSR
process which tends to be more methodical. To that end there is now a 3.0.x
Trunk in svn of the Apache MyFaces PortletBridge project (where the JSR RI
work is):
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/myfaces/portlet-bridge/core/trunk_3.0.x .
This code is stable enough for an alpha release in that it passes the
upgraded version of the 329 TCK and runs the various Ajax and
CompositeComponent samples I could find on the web/in Mojarra. I will be
doing an official (alpha) release shortly once I have clearance. But in the
meantime, interested parties can build/use it directly from this repository.
FYI ... anyone wanting to do so may want to contact me as I have found bugs
in both Mojarra and MyFaces that prevent proper execution in a portlet
environment. I can suggest/provide various patches to get around these
problems.
It's probably worthwhile bringing Wesley Hales (JBoss Portlet Bridge) and
Neil Griffin (portletfaces bridge) about this; I believe they both support
JSF 2 currently, but I'm not sure if they're using standard extension points
or not.
Finally, since the question was asked here -- when proposed the Bridge JSR
a few years ago there was a discussion on whether it needed to be separated
from JSF or not. At the time we argued that it should be because the
nuances of the portlet environment needed the focus of that community more
than the JSF community. Now that the core of the bridge have been defined,
standardized, and proven to work in practice, its useful to revisit this
question. Given that the underlying portlet spec is both stable and
unlikely to change in the near or medium future, it seems that the bridge is
now pretty much only tied to future JSF enhancements. Is it time to tie
this work closer to the JSF standards work? If so, what form do you think
this should take?
Given how slowly this process moves, I think it probably makes sense to keep
them separate, personally. We never get through all of the things we'd like
to for JSF all by itself..
-- Kito
-Mike-
Ed
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