el-ri
Occasionally I need the EL reference implementation in my projects. JARS are hard to find. They seem to be provided by JBoss MAven2 repositories only. The repository URL is http://repository.jboss.org/maven2 .
javax.el
el-api
1.2
provided
javax.el
el-ri
1.2
provided
WebSphere 6.1 and JSF 1.2
The last week I was asked to migrate a JSF 1.2 / Seam 2.x based web app to a WebSphere 6.1 application server. I hadn’t worked with WebSphere in a while, though I knew what I had to expect.
IBM still hasn’t released a JavaEE 5 compliant product, so the 6.1 version is still on J2SE 1.4 with JSP 2.0 and Java Servlet 2.4. Also it has a built-in JSF 1.1.
The application to be migrated luckly is using facelets as its view technology otherwise I would have been screwed anyway. JSF 1.2 itself doesn’t rely on the servlet spec 2.4 so a good chance to get it done.
To run JSF 1.2 the following is required:
- Make sure that you WebSphere installation is at least running with fixpack 13!
- Create a shared library containing JSF RI 1.2 jars (jsf-api.jar, jsf-impl.jar, el-api-1.0.jar, el-impl-1.0.jar)
- Create a classloader with application classes loaded first and bind it to the shared library above
- Set the classloading policy as application classes loaded first and assign the classloader
