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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:05:14 -0500
From: "Mike Kienenberger" <mkienenb@gmail.com>
To: "MyFaces Discussion" <users@myfaces.apache.org>
Subject: Re: jsf pluggable pages
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I'm not sure how you'd do it for jsp pages, but I think your facelets
xhtml files will be found without any problems in the jar.  I can't
remember if it requires configuring a resource loader, though.

On 3/4/08, Penkov Vladimir <penkov@fotobank.ru> wrote:
> I have jsf application, written using facelets. I want it to be extedable with custom modules.
>  Module is simple jar with faces-context.xml in it. I can place it in /WEB-INF/lib directory, register somehow in my app, for example by specifying main class of module, so later, after deploy, I can reach all resources from this jar.
>  As specified in spec, I can add managed beans and custom navigation rules into module's faces-context.xml. But what about jsp pages? How can I add them and later tell my main app to use them? For example, I have rule:
>  <navigation-rule>
>    <from-view-id>/modules/test/foo.jsp</from-view-id>
>    <navigation-case>
>       <from-action>#{moduleBean.doSmth}</from-action>
>       <to-view-id>/modules/test/foo1.jsp</to-view-id>
>    </navigation-case>
>  </navigation-rule>
>
>  (let's say, that every module must use /modules/<module_name> prefix).
>  Both foo.jsp and foo1.jsp are located in module_test.jar, which is (as
>  Imentioned before) in /WEB-INF/lib folder of my main app. So how will
>  main app understand that it must load jsp's from module_test.jar?
>