JSR 168 Portlets with JSF Content

Question

Is there any news on the possibility of achieving this.
Should I go ahead and do it myself using MyFaces and the Apache Portals JSF Bridge?  (or try and leverage the WebSphere JSF tooling using the Apache Portals JSF Bridge)?   Or use the Sun JSF-Portlet Bridge?
Thanks,
Don

Answer 1

Don,There is a JSR-168 / JSF portlet bridge that I tested on our portal a few months ago that worked pretty well. It required a lot of changes to the faces-config.xml file and the addition of a bridge jar. I think it also had some drawbacks in regards to the use of sub-views in a JSF page.If you are not tied to using JSR-168, a better solution might be the new JSF filter, which is similar to what we do with .NET Web controls. It allows JSF applications to run as portlets and refreshes the portlet using in-place-refresh (AJAX). This filter is simple to set up, well documented, and can be found at: http://portal.plumtree.com/portal/server.pt?space=CommunityPage&cached=true&parentname=CommunityPage&parentid=0&in_hi_userid=63776&control=SetCommunity&CommunityID=2758&PageID=5913under the name "Java Portlet Tools".Let me know which solution you are interested in. The JSF / JSR-168 bridge is available from Sun as development source code but you will probably want to use some of the helper classes that I wrote for it. These classes are not publically available, but I can send you a jar if that's what you need.Andy
------- Don Brady wrote on 6/2/05 9:11 AM -------Is there any news on the possibility of achieving this.Should I go ahead and do it myself using MyFaces and the Apache Portals JSF Bridge? (or try and leverage the WebSphere JSF tooling using the Apache Portals JSF Bridge)? Or use the Sun JSF-Portlet Bridge?Thanks,Don