JSF 1.2 (MyFaces Core 1.2.x - implementation) & Struts Shale

[Costa Basil]

I've been successfully using Struts Shale 1.0.3 with MyFaces 1.1.x & Tomhawk 1.1.x. Now I want to upgrade to MyFaces Core 1.2.x which is a JSF 1.2 implementation. Can someone please tell me if JSF 1.2 makes some of features in Struts Shale Core obsolete - for instance the ViewController mechanism? Will Struts Shale work with MyFaces 1.2 seamlessly?

My code is relying heavily on the shale framework (core) - all my managed beans extend the AbstractViewController class and rely on the ViewController calls made by the framework to prerender, init & co. I am also using some of the validation tags.

I didn't dig up the JSF 1.2 documentation but I think I read somewhere that JSF 1.2 offers something similar to the ViewController mechanism.

Thanks


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[Cyril Bouteille-2]

JSF 1.2 introduced @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy annotations (see
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jhook/archive/2007/05/jsf_12_ri_backi.html),
which somewhat overlap with Shale's prerender/destroy hooks, but it's
still not quite as powerful. Most notably:
* @PostConstruct won't get call on every page it's used w/ a
session-scoped FB, and
* you can't control @PostConstruct execution everytime the FB is
instanciated as Shale allows you to w/ <s:subview> does.
I'm using JSF 1.2 Mojarra implementation w/ Shale just fine, but I
unfortunately can't speak to MyFaces compatibility.

Costa Basil wrote:

> I've been successfully using Struts Shale 1.0.3 with MyFaces 1.1.x & Tomhawk 1.1.x. Now I want to upgrade to MyFaces Core 1.2.x which is a JSF 1.2 implementation. Can someone please tell me if JSF 1.2 makes some of features in Struts Shale Core obsolete - for instance the ViewController mechanism? Will Struts Shale work with MyFaces 1.2 seamlessly?
>
> My code is relying heavily on the shale framework (core) - all my managed beans extend the AbstractViewController class and rely on the ViewController calls made by the framework to prerender, init & co. I am also using some of the validation tags.
>
> I didn't dig up the JSF 1.2 documentation but I think I read somewhere that JSF 1.2 offers something similar to the ViewController mechanism.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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[Costa Basil]

>I'm using JSF 1.2 Mojarra implementation w/ Shale just fine, but I unfortunately can't speak to MyFaces compatibility.

That is good to know.

Thanks



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