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St.Antario
St.Antario

Reputation: 27375

Are RichFaces 3.3.3 and JSF 2.1 going to work fine together?

Currently I'm using JSF 1.2 and RichFaces 3.3.3 and they work fine. But am I going to have to update my current RichFaces version up to 4.x and make the changes, coprresponding to the migration guide if I decide to update my JSF version up to 2.1.29. I mean are there components which are not going to work appropriate or ever work at the JSF 2.1.29 + RichFaces 4.x(4.5.2 in particularly) combination. I mean components like a4j:keepAlive which I think should be replaced with something else.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1275

Answers (1)

Lorenz Pfisterer
Lorenz Pfisterer

Reputation: 863

Basically they are going together but with some limitations, because RichFaces 3.3.3 does not support some JSF 2 functionalities like built-in facelets (VDL), Bean Validation (JSR-303), JSF 2 afax functionality, ... see here.

But there are some workarounds to get over the limitations...

The problems you will depends strongly on the used Richfaces Components in your project.

If you want to use JSF 2 (2.0, 2.1, 2.2) and its benefit, I would consider also updating to RichFaces 4 (4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5) in order to get all the benefits from JSF 2. You need to investigate time for both solutions. But if you go with RichFaces 4, future changes will be more efficient I think.

If you decide to stay on Richfaces 3.3, I would consider update the version to 3.3.4 which consists of a security patch applied to the 3.3.3.Final release and which introduces basic JSF 2 support to the 3.3.X branch.

Upvotes: 1

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