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maple_shaft
maple_shaft

Reputation: 10463

Can EL 2.2 capable JSF web applications be deployed to shared Tomcat 6 hosting environment?

I know that by replacing the el-api.jar in the lib folder of the Tomcat 6 directory with an EL 2.2 capable version that it is possible to utilize the power of EL 2.2 in Tomcat 6. See the following questions:

I have an app that I need to deploy for a public facing site and I want to do it as cheaply as possible. The best bargain for me would be to go with a Shared Tomcat hosting provider where you share a Tomcat instance with others, however the one I talked to doesn't offer Tomcat 7 environments.

It would be a lot more expensive and time consuming for me to setup a VPS to do this, so I was wondering if there is anyway I can swing this on Tomcat 6 without the ability to modify the lib directory?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 376

Answers (1)

BalusC
BalusC

Reputation: 1108557

Use JBoss EL instead. It is EL 2.1 based, but offers the same enhancements as done in EL 2.2. Drop jboss-el.jar in /WEB-INF/lib and add the following to the web.xml:

<context-param>     
    <param-name>com.sun.faces.expressionFactory</param-name>
    <param-value>org.jboss.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl</param-value>   
</context-param>

No need to modify Tomcat's /lib. You only need to ensure that you're using Facelets instead of JSP.

Upvotes: 4

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