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

2009/12/10 Lincoln Baxter, III <lincolnbaxter@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