Re: [jsr-314-open] [jsf2next] PROJECT_STAGE system property configuration

On 01/12/2010 12:58 PM, Ed Burns wrote: > Gah! Cay is right, the spec does say the default is Production. Either > 1) I'm not remembering things correctly, 2) the spec is wrong 3) I've > changed my mind since writing the spec. In any case, this discussion is > apropos. If the spec is indeed not what you folks intended, maybe it would be a good idea to fix it? This could be done independent of the larger issue whether PROJECT_STAGE is adopted elsewhere in Java EE.

I agree that we need to provide the best possible development experience. However, as enterprise software, we also want JSF 2 applications to be secure by default. To that end, I believe that production is the appropriate default PROJECT_STAGE. Of course, during development, we don't want to have to perform a bunch of additional configuration in order to make the project stage during development, Development. However, our development tools should be able to do that for us. In addition, we really don't want the development tool to do this by changing the init-parameter to Development, since there is always the danger that we'll forget to change the value to Production later and accidentally ship the application with the wrong configuration. We really want the development tool to configure the project stage when deploying just to the development server.