JSF 2.0 portlet development

Hi there,
I'm new in the world of J2EE and I'm trying to develop JSF 2.0 portlets to run on JBoss Portal 2.7.
Unfortunately no JSF 2.0 portlet bridge standard exists (only for JSF 1.2), JBoss Portlet bridge still only supports JSF 1.2 and I didn't find any tutorial to make even a "Hello World" JSF 2.0 portlet.
The only thing I found is the project portletfaces, a JSF 2.0 portlet bridge, but it can only make it work on Liferay (for wich it is optimized), not on JBoss Portal (or even GateIn). Unfortunately for my project I absolutely need to use JBoss Portal...
Can anyone help me? Is it mandatory to use a portlet bridge for JSF 2.0 portlet development? Am I screwed?
Thanks a lot!
Nicolas!

802101 wrote:
Hi gimbal2, thank you for your answer :)
So yeah, you confirm what I thought: it's to soon, better wait the maturity of the thing
However, I still have this question: is it possible to develop portlets WITHOUT using a portlet bridge ? Don't I just have to add a few config files (like portlet.xml, jboss-web.xml) and it is on?
Thanks a lotOf course you can. The bridge is there for interoperability between portlets and other (mostly JSF-based) frameworks. There is nothing stopping you from creating portlets without the bridge and you should just do that until you find you actually need it. My development take on 'management by exception' :)

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