Replacing Sun�s JSF implementation for MyFaces in Creator

Question

Hi. Does anyone know if I can replace the JSF implementation Creator uses for another, like MyFaces?
Thanks

Answer 1

OK. I looked at ourfaces_release_0_1.zip & ourfaces_20040622_1208.zip to see why latter worked. The reason is in the latter one, the faces-config.xml file is kept inside the META_INF directory of the jar file as expected by Creator.
Regarding, "Component Runtime Jar", this will be automatically created for you if you don't provide one. If you look at <creator-user-dir>/components/jars you would find the created jar file (Note - the design time jar file mostly contains beaninfo classes of the component beans) .
Also, you can provide your own design time jar file, if you don't wan't creator to create one automatically for you. As a starting point, you could use the script <creator-install-dir>/startup/bin/create-dt-jar.bat or sh and the corresponding "ant" script create-dt-jar.xml, to create your own design time jar file for more control over design time experience.
> I am able to drag them onto the visual editor but nothing shows up ..
Reason is the design time specifics are not included in the design time jar file. To include it in the automatically created design time jar file, you need to add an additional XML file called "sun-faces-config.xml" file in the META_INF directory along with the faces-config.xml. Unfortunately we don't yet have published documentation on how to create this XML file. But we are working on this.
Alternateively, you could include these info in to the "beaninfo" classes directly after they are generated using the tools I mentioned above, before they are jar-ed to create the design time jar file . Again the documentations are not yet published.
To specify the default Tag Lib URI look at the ourfaces.tld file. It is
<uri>http://ourfaces.dev.sun.net/components</uri>
- Winston