Rich faces in jsf?

Question

I want to use rich faces library in a jsf project.I am using NetBeans 6.I am following the instructions given but I must be doing something wrong because the projects doesn't run.Do rich faces work in NetBeans?And if they do,do I have to have a Visual Web application or a simple Web application?I'm a little confused because I don't have time to read about it carefully,so if anyone knows approximately how it works,or have any links to help me, I would really appreciate it.I want to use rich faces because I want to create a panel menu.By the way,if you have any other idea on how to create a panel menu in NetBeans please let me know!

Answer 1

As far as using RichFaces with Glassfish or Sun Java Application Server 9 in Netbeans 6, there are a few things you have to do.
1. Add these jars to the server lib:
* commons-logging (bundled with NetBeans)
* commons-digester
* commons-collections
* commons-beanutils
* richfaces-api-#.#.#.jar
2. Add these jars to your netbeans project:
* richfaces-api-#.#.#.jar
* richfaces-impl-#.#.#.jar
* richfaces-ui-#.#.#.jar
3. Add This to your faces.config
    <context-param>
        <param-name>org.richfaces.SKIN</param-name>
        <param-value>blueSky</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <filter>
        <display-name>RichFaces Filter</display-name>
        <filter-name>richfaces</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.ajax4jsf.Filter</filter-class>
    </filter>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>richfaces</filter-name>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
        <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
        <dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
    </filter-mapping>Once everything is wired up, you can access the tags by:
<%@ taglib uri="http://richfaces.org/a4j" prefix="a4j"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://richfaces.org/rich" prefix="rich"%>
OR for XHTML pages:
<xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j">
<xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich">
HTH,
Ryan