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 Myfaces Core 2.0 on Google App Engine
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 Ali Ok
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 2010-04-08
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Myfaces Core 2.0 on Google App Engine
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  In order to run Myfaces on Google App Engine, you need to complete the steps below. Configuration explained in this document is tested with
  Google App Engine 1.3.0.
  
  You can also find tutorials for {{{http://myfaces.apache.org/core20/myfaces2-googleappengine-eclipse-tutorial.html}Eclipse}} and {{{http://myfaces.apache.org/core20/myfaces2-googleappengine-idea-tutorial.html}IntelliJ IDEA}}.  

   * Download a Myfaces Core <<<2.0.0-beta-3>>> or a version released <<later>> than <<<2.0.0-beta-3>>>. Google App Engine support is not available for older versions.
     Extract and put following files into war/WEB-INF/lib:
       
       * myfaces-api-2.0.x.jar
       
       * myfaces-impl-2.0.x.jar
       
       * commons-beanutils-1.x.x.jar
       
       * commons-collections-3.x.jar
       
       * commons-digester-x.x.jar
       
       * commons-discovery-0.x.jar
       
       * commons-logging-1.x.x.jar
        

   * Add following lines into your web.xml.

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
      <web-app>
        ...
        
        <!--
            Need to set a secret to avoid javax.crypto.BadPaddingException.
            "param-value" must be Base64 encoded.
            More details: http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/Secure_Your_Application
         -->
        <context-param>
            <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.SECRET</param-name>
            <param-value>NzY1NDMyMTA=</param-value>
        </context-param>
        
        <!--
           Facelets configuration fragment
        -->
        <context-param>
          <param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>
          <param-value>.xhtml</param-value>
        </context-param>
        
        <servlet>
          <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
          <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
        </servlet>
        
        <servlet-mapping>
          <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
          <url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
        </servlet-mapping>
        ...      
      </web-app>
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+

   * Enable sessions on App Engine. To do this, add line below to war/WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml.
   
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
      <sessions-enabled>true</sessions-enabled>
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+

   
   * Although Google App Engine is said to support JSP 2.1, JSP implementation version(2.0) 
     does not match JSP API version(2.1). So, we need to supply Unified Expression Language 
     implementation jars. You can find them {{{https://uel.dev.java.net/}here}}.
     Put el-api-1.x.jar and el-impl-1.x.jar into war/WEB-INF/lib.  

   * If you have a faces-config.xml, please check that you use the header for JSF2:

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<faces-config
	    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
	    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_2_0.xsd"
	    version="2.0">
	    ...
	</faces-config>
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+


   * Here is the <<sample>> directory structure:
   
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   +<Your Google App Engine Project Folder>
     + src
       + META-INF
         - jdoconfig.xml
     + war
       - somepage.xhtml
       + WEB-INF
         - appengine-web.xml
         - faces-config.xml
         - logging.properties
         - web.xml
         + lib
           - appengine-api-1.0-sdk-1.3.0.jar
           - appengine-api-labs-1.3.0.jar
           - commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar
           - commons-collections-3.2.jar
           - commons-digester-1.8.jar
           - commons-discovery-0.4.jar
           - commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
           - datanucleus-appengine-1.0.4.1.final.jar
           - datanucleus-core-1.1.5.jar
           - datanucleus-jpa-1.1.5.jar
           - el-api-1.1.jar
           - el-impl-1.1.jar
           - geronimo-jpa_3.0_spec-1.1.1.jar
           - geronimo-jta_1.1_spec-1.1.1.jar
           - jdo2-api-2.3-eb.jar
           - myfaces-api-2.0.0-beta-3.jar 
           - myfaces-impl-2.0.0-beta-3.jar 
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+