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Krishna
Krishna

Reputation: 7294

JSP's not supported in IceFaces 2.0.0

Last week IceFaces has released its new version 2.0.0. It was long been in the beta version and finally came out to final version. In the release notes it is specified as "JSPs are not supported by ICEfaces 2.0 - use Facelets". What does that mean?. Are we not suppose to write any JSP's?. What about the existing projects running on JSP files.

Please advise me.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 790

Answers (2)

Arjan Tijms
Arjan Tijms

Reputation: 38163

It's not that IceFaces specifically doesn't support JSPs. It's the fact that IceFaces 2.0.0 is based on JSF 2.0 and it takes advantage of a couple of JSF 2.0 specific features.

A lot of the new JSF 2.0 specific features are simply not supported in JSP. So if any technology depends on those features, it automatically doesn't support JSP. (this is one reason why it's so important for legacy JSF projects to migrate from JSP to Facelets ASAP).

I put some references to authoritative sources on the wikepedia article about Facelets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facelets). This is the one from the official specification (emphasis mine).

JSF 2.0 (JSR 314, http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314) specification, maintenance release 2, section 10.1:

Facelets is a replacement for JSP that was designed from the outset with JSF in mind. New features introduced in version 2 and later are only exposed to page authors using Facelets. JSP is retained for backwards compatibility.

Upvotes: 2

Aravind Yarram
Aravind Yarram

Reputation: 80176

From JSF 2.0, Facelets is the official view technology. Even if JSP is supported it will be minimal. Read more here

Upvotes: 2

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