JSF Spring Boot Starter
This spring boot starter enables JSF usage inside JAR packaged Spring Boot Application.
It autoconfigures Primefaces, Omnifaces, Mojarra and Myfaces libraries to run at embedded Tomcat.
How to use
Jsf Spring Boot Starter Example shows jsf spring boot starter usage.
Key Features
- Includes primefaces, primefaces-extensions, primefaces-all-themes, omnifaces, mojarra and cdi-api dependency libraries. Note that myfaces is optional and should not be used with mojarra if you prefer myfaces.
| Library | Dependency |
|---|---|
| primefaces | 5.3 |
| primefaces-extensions | 4.0.0 |
| primefaces-all-themes | 1.0.8 |
| omnifaces | 1.13 |
| mojarra | 2.2.13 |
| myfaces | 2.2.10 |
| cdi-api | 1.2 |
- Enable jsf properties configuration via application.properties or application.yml according discussion in #22
| Library | Namespace | Example |
|---|---|---|
| standard (javax.faces) | jsf | jsf.PROJECT_STAGE=Development |
| primefaces | jsf.primefaces | jsf.primefaces.theme=overcast |
| omnifaces | jsf.omnifaces | jsf.omnifaces.FACES_VIEWS_ENABLED=true |
| mojarra (com.sun.faces) | jsf.mojarra | jsf.mojarra.preferXHTML=true |
| myfaces (org.apache.myfaces) | jsf.myfaces | jsf.myfaces.PRETTY_HTML=true |
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Includes spring-boot-starter-web, tomcat-embed-jasper, jstl and commons-digester dependencies transitively.
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Enable CDI annotations usage, including View scope implementation. Examples: @ViewScoped, @SessionScoped.