Multiple faces-config files

can i have more than one faces-config.xml files in one web application ...
e.g. I have my custom configs defined in my-faces-config.xml and I am using third party components whose configs are specified in their-faces-config.xml
Can both of these co-exist? If yes, how can I go about doing that?
Thanks.

Yes ... you've got a couple of things you can do to accomplish this.
First, you can create a comma-delimited list of paths to faces-config.xml files in your context init param named "javax.faces.application.CONFIG_FILES". So, your apps own settings can be divided as needed.
Second, every JAR file in your /WEB-INF/lib directory will be searched for a "META-INF/faces-config.xml" file at application startup time. If such a file is found, it will be processed automatically. This is designed to make it easy to build a third party library JAR containing components, renderers, tags, etc. and their configuration information, and be able to use those things simply by dropping the JAR inside your webapp.
Note that TLDs under META-INF/tld are automatically recognized in the same way, so tag libraries can be self-registering as well.
Craig

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