Facelets & JSP in JSF 2.0

Dear all
i migrated my ADF / JSF (*.jspx) Application using JDeveloper 11.1.2 , but when i am trying to create new page, i found two types *(Facelets & JSP Xml).*
and in oracle doc , future in using Facelets.
i have a project now with all screens in jspx, my question now : how to migrate my Jspx to to Facelets screens (Jsf) ?
thanks

There is possibly a two part solution to this:
1. Make facelets recognize jspx as a valid facelet extension. This is done by adding the following in web.xml
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.FACELETS_VIEW_MAPPINGS</param-name>
<param-value>*.jspx;*.jsf;*.xhtml</param-value>
</context-param>
2. Add the required facelets libraries. Jdeveloper ships with "JSF Core 2.0" and "JSF Compatibilty Tags for Facelets". These
facelets libraries need to be added to the project.
3. faces-config.xml version has to be 2.0.
If you are also using ADF, then the following should be added to web.xml as well:
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.FACELETS_SKIP_XML_INSTRUCTIONS</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.FACELETS_SKIP_COMMENTS</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.FACELETS_DECORATORS</param-name>
<param-value>oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.facelets.rich.AdfTagDecorator</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.FACELETS_RESOURCE_RESOLVER</param-name>
<param-value>oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.facelets.rich.AdfFaceletsResourceResolver</param-value>
</context-param>
You could give this a shot. Credits to Mark Romano for telling me this.

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