JSF 1.2 commons version

Question

Hi:
I have already asked this question on another thread but now I think I can be more specific about the problem.
I am trying to install Richfaces on JSF Visual.
I have noticed that there are classes that are found in the commons 3.2 collections that are not included in JSF 1.2.
For example AbstractHashMap, IterableMap.
What version of commons is JSF 1.2 using and is it possible to use commons 3.2 and if yes, how do I do that?
Thanks

Answer 1

I can't help you much with Netbeans and RichFaces specific questions as I don't use them. But if RichFaces itself is giving a ClassNotFoundException (by the way, I think that you rather mean NoClassDefFoundError, which is a bit different exception) pointing to an org.apache.commons class, then you need to download that class (or in this case, the JAR with the class) and put it in the classpath of your webapplication (which can be WEB-INF/lib). The desired API can simply be found looking at the 4th part of the package name, e.g. org.apache.commons.collections, which points to the Collections API. http://www.google.com/search?q=collections+site:commons.apache.org will point you to the Collections API home page where you can download the JAR file. Downloading the latest version ought to be sufficient.
The current Sun JSF RI implementation version can be found if you unpack the jsf-api.jar and jsf-impl.jar and read the manifest.mf file. You can download the newest Sun JSF reference implementation at http://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net