[weld-dev] Remove JSF from Weld Core?

Hi Guys, I'd like to get your thoughts on the possibility of removing JSF dependencies from Weld Core and putting them in their own artifact. The reason I want to do this is so that in WildFly we can more easily allow Weld JSF classes to work with multiple JSF versions. As it is now, Weld Core has a hard-coded dependency on the single JSF version that ships with WildFly. So whether someone uses the Multi-JSF feature or uses WAR_BUNDLES_JSF_IMPL, you can get Linkage errors when trying to use Weld Core. rest of Weld Core. Instead they are instantiated via the Weld subsystem's inclusion of the ConversationAwareViewHandler in its faces-config.xml. The only part of Weld Core that "sort of" uses a JSF dependency is BeanDeployment. This instantiates an instance of JsfApiAbstraction and registers it the Weld ServiceRegistry. JsfApiAbstraction is only there to determine the JSF spec version. But I haven't been able to find anywhere it is actually used in the wild. Specifically, I would like to move the org.jboss.weld.jsf package into its own jar artifact. org.jboss.weld.servlet.ConversationPropagationFilter would go in there too. Weld Core would then list the new artifact as a dependency so as not to break backward compatibility. If you think it's a good idea I'll be glad to do the work to make it happen. Please let me know. Thanks, Stan