Integrating Struts, Tiles, and JavaServer Faces

I have tried some sample applications in jsf. They are working properly. Basically, our application is based on struts. We fee that that it will be difficult to convert struts based application into jsf. So we plan to integrate jsf components into struts application. I found a site http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-integrate/ where jsf-struts integration material has been given. For this integaration, struts-faces.jar is required. when i try to start the server after struts-faces-1.3.8.jar placed in Tomcat 5.5\common\lib folder, server is not started properly. I have found struts-faces-1.3.8.jar in struts-1.3.8-lib. Should I user struts-faces.jar? if it is so, Where to find struts-faces.jar Please provide a solution for this problem.

Wow, Srikanth. What a great contribution! I'm right at the begining of the design phase of a project that will hopefully go live in March and while I had already settled on a Tiles/Struts approach, I was really wanting to bring in JSF as well. I'm glad to see that someone is actively working on the integration components. I hope that the code modifications you propose make it into the Struts-Faces libraries soon.
One question. While I've been deveolping J2EE webapps for a couple of years now,
I'm still a little new to the Struts/Tiles arena. After reading your article at IBM developerWorks I wasn't able to ascertain whether or not what you proposed worked with the idea of individual controllers for each tile, which is a pattern that my project will need to adopt (I read about it in the short article here - http://www.theserverside.com/resources/article.jsp?l=Tiles101).
Can you shed some light on the subject? Will the modifications you proposed allow Tiles to continue to work in that fashion?
-Matt Welch
Hi,
Currently JSF, Struts and Tiles cannot work together
out of the box.
Craig McClanahan has come up with Struts-Faces which
lets you integrate Struts and JSF. This is ideal for
projects who want to protect their code investment in
Struts and also want to take advantage of JSF once it
is final.
Unfortunately if you are also using Tiles, this is not
possible because of some showstoppers on your way. I
started on this venture a while back and ran into the
same problems and decided to write some code - on top
of Struts-Faces and was pretty successful.
I am sharing this knowledge with the rest of you with
this article of mine on IBM developerWorks
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-integra
e/
As already pointed out in this forum earlier, this
article covers the steps to integrate the three and
provides complete source code and also a working
example.
Hope you will find the article and the code useful.
Thanks,
Srikanth

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