>>>>> On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:12:14 +0100, Jan-Kees van Andel <jankeesvanandel_at_gmail.com> said:
DD> We're currently preparing an upgrade of all of our JSF webapps
DD> (currently still at JSF 1.1 due to JDK / J2EE container limitations)
DD> and I wanted to get a sneak preview of the 2.0 release (although
DD> we're most likely going to upgrade to JSF 1.2).
>>
DD> Can you tell me if JSF 2.0 will be dependent on any features in the
DD> JEE6 spec, or will it be able to run on JEE5 certified containers
DD> available today ? [Message sent by forum member 'ddewaele'
DD> (ddewaele)]
>>
>> JSF 2.0 will run on Java EE 5, though not all features will be available
>> in that environment. Thankfully, at this point in time there are no
>> Java EE 6 features that we depend upon so *all* of JSF 2.0 works under
>> Jave EE 5, but this could change if they come up with a feature that we
>> really need!
JA> I think this is a very interesting one. How will other Java EE6
JA> features like Bean Validation and Web Beans be used in JSF?
For those, you must have an EE6 container.
JA> Is it going to be some kind of SPI, making them pluggable or is JSF
JA> going to have compile time dependencies on those frameworks?
JA> After all, Web Beans is one of the things many people will probably
JA> "really need". :-)
Indeed, I think we really do need it in EE6!
Ed
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