[sakai2-tcc] Experimental 1.2 jsf branch

[David Horwitz]

> On 2/23/2011 9:27 AM, David Horwitz wrote:
>> 1) JSF 1.2 requires jsp-api 2.1 - this is deployed to common/lib
>
> Although JSF is rather painful to work with, it does provide an
> interesting feature that I have taken advantage of.  JSF supports JSP
> rendering and control.  Although I'm sure it was intended as a legacy
> support feature, it does enable JSP's to work in Sakai.  Aaron Z and I
> played around with getting JSP to work in Sakai several years back,
> with limited results.  The problem is buried in the Sakai
> RequestFilter somewhere.  Regardless, JSF allows a developer to use
> JSP.  Another reason to keep JSF in Sakai and make sure that we track
> JSF release the best we can.
>
> - Mark Norton 

Perhaps then you might be better placed than me to comment on the likely
implications viz. existing tools if we upgrade to 2.1 (or even 2.1.2)?

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