[seam-dev] jsf in seam 3

[Shane Bryzak]

Dan Allen wrote:
> Working on the booking example has allowed me to gain a perspective 
> about what services we need right away out of the faces (jsf) module. 
> Perhaps it can be removed once the next rev of the EL is ready, but 
> for now we need JBoss EL to get parametrized EL expressions. That 
> means providing a custom JSF Application factory.
>
> Fortunately, overriding the default Application impl got way simpler 
> in JSF 2.0 since the spec now provides a base implementation class 
> that you can override a single method at a time. We can eliminate 
> these overrides as they come available in the platform. But for now we 
> need it.
>
> ...that brings me to my next very important point. I think we need to 
> be developing against the JSF trunk. The last release, PR2, does not 
> have any of the features that we recently contributed, making 
> development against PR2 almost pointless. I would like to compile a 
> JSF release, call it 2.0.0-PR2_1 (or suggest another version number), 
> deploy it to the JBoss repository, and Seam can depend on that for 
> now. If there are no objections, I will do that today.

No objections from me.

>
> Going back to the faces module, instead of continuing with the 
> org.jboss.seam.jsf and org.jboss.seam.faces package split in Seam 3, I 
> think we should put all the faces classes under org.jboss.seam.faces 
> and use appropriate sub-package names. So in this case, I propose 
> org.jboss.seam.faces.application.SeamApplicationFactory and 
> org.jboss.seam.faces.application.SeamApplication for overriding the 
> default Application impl. We will also need the org.jboss.seam.el 
> package (perhaps module).

+1 for this idea.  The module dependencies are turning out to be quite 
difficult to unravel, if we put our foot down and say that all 
faces-related/dependent functionality just goes in the faces module this 
will greatly help to simplify things.

>
> -Dan
>
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