Making JSF 1.0 Work

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Today I took the time to go through and make JSF work, and after some finding out I made it fly. Luckily I only needed to patch various deployment descriptors... [diffs included]
Perhaps other people can benefit from these expperiences;
1. I needed to patch the TLD's for the scriptfree and permittedTaglibs
libraries, as they are not conforming; and so I couldn't deploy them
with a validating parser.
2. The TLD for the demo-components includes reference to a non-existing
tag, components.taglib.AreaSelectedTag. Again, our pedantic deployment
tool wouldn't allow deployment.
3. In the provided web.xml (inside jsf-components.war, for example),
there is no reference to the ConfigureListener, and so nothing
worked until I added that.
BTW, congrats on the release; good work!
Kresten
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--- components.tld~     Sat Mar 13 15:57:59 2004
+++ components.tld     Sat Mar 13 16:05:43 2004
@@ -170,38 +170,6 @@
<tag>
- <name>area_selected</name>
- <tag-class>components.taglib.AreaSelectedTag</tag-class>
- <body-content>empty</body-content>
- <description>
- Register an AreaSelectedListener, of the class specified by the
- type attribute, with the parent MapComponent in which we are nested.
- </description>
- <attribute>
- <name>binding</name>
- <required>false</required>
- <rtexprvalue>false</rtexprvalue>
- <description>
- Component reference expression for this component.
- </description>
- </attribute>
- <attribute>
- <name>type</name>
- <required>true</required>
- <rtexprvalue>false</rtexprvalue>
- <description>
- Fully qualified name of a JavaBean class (which must implement
- components.components.AreaSelectedListener) to be registered.
- </description>
- </attribute>
- </tag>
- <tag>
<name>data_repeater</name>
<tag-class>components.taglib.DataRepeaterTag</tag-class>
<body-content>JSP</body-content>
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--- permittedTaglibs.tld~     Sat Mar 13 15:42:51 2004
+++ permittedTaglibs.tld     Sat Mar 13 15:43:48 2004
@@ -3,22 +3,26 @@
<taglib xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation=
- "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee web jsptaglibrary_2_0.xsd"
+ "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee web-jsptaglibrary_2_0.xsd"
version="2.0">
<description>
Restricts JSP pages to the JSTL tag libraries
</description>
+ <display-name>permittedTaglibs</display-name>
<tlib-version>1.1</tlib-version>
- <jsp-version>2.0</jsp-version>
<short-name>permittedTaglibs</short-name>
<uri>http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/standard/permittedTaglibs</uri>
- <display-name>permittedTaglibs</display-name>
<validator>
<validator-class>
     javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.tlv.PermittedTaglibsTLV
</validator-class>
<init-param>
+ <description>
+ Whitespace-separated list of taglib URIs to permit. This example
+     TLD for the Standard Taglib allows only JSTL 'el' taglibs to be
+     imported.
+ </description>
<param-name>permittedTaglibs</param-name>
<param-value>
     http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core
@@ -26,11 +30,6 @@
     http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/sql
     http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/xml
</param-value>
- <description>
- Whitespace-separated list of taglib URIs to permit. This example
-     TLD for the Standard Taglib allows only JSTL 'el' taglibs to be
-     imported.
- </description>
</init-param>
</validator>
</taglib>
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--- scriptfree.tld~     Sat Mar 13 15:42:51 2004
+++ scriptfree.tld     Sat Mar 13 15:45:46 2004
@@ -3,51 +3,50 @@
<taglib xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation=
- "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee web jsptaglibrary_2_0.xsd"
+ "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee web-jsptaglibrary_2_0.xsd"
version="2.0">
<description>
Validates JSP pages to prohibit use of scripting elements.
</description>
<tlib-version>1.1</tlib-version>
- <jsp-version>2.0</jsp-version>
<short-name>scriptfree</short-name>
<uri>http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/standard/scriptfree</uri>
<validator>
+ <description>
+ Validates prohibitions against scripting elements.
+ </description>
<validator-class>
     javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.tlv.ScriptFreeTLV
</validator-class>
<init-param>
- <param-name>allowDeclarations</param-name>
- <param-value>false</param-value>
<description>
Controls whether or not declarations are considered valid.
</description>
+ <param-name>allowDeclarations</param-name>
+ <param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
- <param-name>allowScriptlets</param-name>
- <param-value>false</param-value>
<description>
Controls whether or not scriptlets are considered valid.
</description>
+ <param-name>allowScriptlets</param-name>
+ <param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
- <param-name>allowExpressions</param-name>
- <param-value>false</param-value>
<description>
Controls whether or not top-level expressions are considered valid.
</description>
+ <param-name>allowExpressions</param-name>
+ <param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
- <param-name>allowRTExpressions</param-name>
- <param-value>false</param-value>
<description>
Controls whether or not expressions used to supply request-time
attribute values are considered valid.
</description>
+ <param-name>allowRTExpressions</param-name>
+ <param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
- <description>
- Validates prohibitions against scripting elements.
- </description>
</validator>
</taglib>
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--- web.xml~     Sat Mar 13 15:42:05 2004
+++ web.xml     Sat Mar 13 18:19:09 2004
@@ -88,6 +88,11 @@
</description>
</context-param>
+ <!-- make JSF load the configuration -->
+ <listener>
+ <listener-class>com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener</listener-class>
+ </listener>
+
<!-- Faces Servlet -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
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Answer 1

The fact that you need a reference to ConfigureListener means there's a bug in the servlet engine you're using - a proper Servlet 2.3 & JSP 1.2 engine would automatically load that listener. So that ain't a bug in JSF.
The other things look like bugs in the demo parts of JSF - not problems with the core of the JSF RI.
-- Adam Winer (EG member)