Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

The method to over ride the faces context has changed between SUN Application Server 8.2 and 9.1, as a result the instructions which were previously provided on the MyFaces wiki (http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/Installation_and_Configuration) no longer work. What I am looking for is instructions that will allow me to use our own faces jars and not (javaee.jar) which is provided as part of the application server.

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What I need to do is to get Sun Application Server 9.1 to allow me to over ride the faces context /javax/faces/context/ with that from my local jars, in version 8.X the following steps were enough:

Start 8.X instructions:

1. Change the config security file so that MyFaces <http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/MyFaces> can delete it's temporary files.


Change permission

    java.io.FilePermission <http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/FilePermission> "<<ALL FILES>>", "read,write";

to

  java.io.FilePermission <http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/FilePermission> "<<ALL FILES>>", "read,write,delete";

2. Prevent the sun reference implementation from being used

In your WEB-INF, create a sun-web.xml file containing

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

    <sun-web-app>

    *

    <class-loader delegate="false"/>

    </sun-web-app>

3. That way, myfaces classes will be loaded instead of Sun RI ones.

And prevent MyFaces <http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/MyFaces> from loading the Sun RI context listener

By creating in your webapp a "fake"
com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener
<http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/ConfigureListener> that will be loaded BEFORE the sun RI one's.

The war file I am making available as a test case has just such a file in my case it is called fakefaces.jar

End instructions for 8.2
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However these steps have changed for version 9.1 as following the exact same procedures does not result in the Application Server using the correct jars, the following is a test using a simple find.jsp, notice how Application Server 9.1 is still using the default jars and not the ones shipping with included as part of my testApp.

Within the war file is a jsp called find.jsp using this I can check which jar file file is being used for any class in my case I'm interested in the the /javax/faces/context/FacesContext.class, in 9.1 it always uses teh copy from javaee.jar and never teh local copy:
For example running: http://<ip address>:<port>/test/find.jsp?class=javax.faces.context.FacesContext
Version 9.1 returns: file:/u01/software/Apps/SunAppServer9.1/lib/javaee.jar!/javax/faces/context/FacesContext.class
Version 8.2 returns: file:/u01/software/Apps/SunAppServer8.2/domains/domain1/applications/j2ee-apps/TestApp/test_war/WEB-INF/lib/myfaces-api.jar!/javax/faces/context/FacesContext.class

Hence 9.1 is still using the copy provided by SUN and not our copy.
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The code for find.jsp is:

<%
    String className = request.getParameter("class");

    Class theClass;
    try
        {
        theClass = Class.forName(className);
        java.net.URL url = theClass.getResource("/" + theClass.getName().replace('.', '/') + ".class");
        out.println(url.getFile());
        }
    catch (ClassNotFoundException e)
        {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        out.println(e);
        }
%>

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Any idea how to over-ride the FacesContext class in version 9.1 to allow for similar functionality as 8.X

Thanks,
ERIC GANDT