JSF 1.2 RI and facelets

Question

Hello, we have some component library that builds on JSF 1.2 RI and facelets. Usually JSF 1.2 cannot run on WLS 9.2 because it requires JSP 2.1 (thus weblogic 10). However,
since we use facelets and thus no JSP, in this case JSF 1.2 can run on WLS 9.2 (and it does work).
However to run as portlet, we need to use some JSF portlet bridge.
Does anyone have experience with this? We would like to try two ways:
1. Bridge to JSR 168 as local portlet, then run this afterwards as a WSRP remote portlet (once you have a local portlet running this should cause no issues).
We already have it running (with some issues, using the sun jsf portlet bridge which is tuned towards JSF 1.2) inside pluto, no I'll try out WLS portal and I would expect no extra issues since we already have a JSR-168 compliant portlet. What do you think?
2. Bridge directly to WSRP bypassing JSR 168. I read that BEA provides a bridge (which then can even run as a simple producer not requiring a portal domain but may run in a normal WLS domain) that does this. I do suspect that this bridge is specifically tuned to JSF 1.1 and JSP (maybe even to weblogic provided JSF tags) and it might be quite hopeless to get JSF 1.2 RI + facelets to run in this way.
Before wasting my time I would be grateful if someone could shed some light on this.
Regards,
Peter Mutsaers
Edited by mutsaers at 03/21/2007 5:49 AM

Answer 1

I'm having issues with JSR 168 portlet with JSF v1.1 (Sun RI) on BEA Portal 9.2. See http://forums.bea.com/bea/thread.jspa?threadID=400002399. I've not had any luck with BEA support so far. It'll be great if you can share your thoughts/experiences with JSF and JSR 168.
Thanks.