Struts-faces LifeCycle

Question

I am studying Struts-Faces to conclude how we can use Struts-faces to prepare the migration from struts to JSF. When a request is sent by user, is it handle by ActionServlet or Faces servlet or another servlet ? I am trying to constitute the LifeCycle for an application done by Struts-faces.
Can anyone help me ?
Thanks.

Answer 1

when you say " the requests will be handled by the
JavaServer Faces controller servlet " you want mean
that any http request will first be handled by
"javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet" anf after will be
redirected depending on the type of request (struts or
JSF) ? Technically, it's not a redirect, or even a forward ... in struts-faces the default ActionListener supplied by JavaServer Faces is replaced by one that invokes the Struts request processor if this is a form submit.
who invoke the "FacesRequestProcessor" ? what is the
role of this class ? it is invoked by ActionServlet
instead of RequestProcessor ?
In the current struts-faces code, ActionServlet does not ever process any requests, but you still need it to set up the overall environment, which is done in it's init() method.
As I said before I try to constitute the life cycle of
Struts-faces application, What I have understand of
you answer is that the Http request is handle by a
front controller ( Web Container ?????) and then
redirected to :
---Lifecycle of JSF if it is an immediate action, or
we are NOT nested in a Struts form
-- FacesRequestProcessor if wa are processing a form
submit.
Yes, but the JavaServer Faces runtime still handles all incoming requests (unless you are intermixing non-Faces-based use of Struts in the same webapp) -- it just calls the FacesRequestProcessor when appropriate.
I read the article of IBM "integrating Struts, Tiles
and JavaServerFaces and I don 't understand clearly
how we use the class "FormComponent" and "FormRag".
Can you give me more explanation please ?
Thanks Craig .I can't speak for the authors of that article, or what they did to integrate Tiles support into the EA4 release of struts-faces. I can tell you that such measures will not be needed when the version of struts-faces compatible with the final version of JavaServer Faces 1.0. Until then, you are looking at code that is bleeding edge, not released, not documented, and not thoroughly tested. When released, it will be documented and tested.
Craig