Getting started

What you need for the Examples Application

• JDK 1.4.x
• Tomcat 4.x or 5.x
  - Get it from http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html)
• MyFaces examples
  - Download the latest MyFaces examples web application

Installing and Running the Examples

• Unpack the MyFaces examples archive myfaces-1.0.7-examples.tgz to a directory of your choice.
• Remove any previous MyFaces webapps from your Tomcat installation and clean up your Tomcat work dir. Also make sure that there is no jsf-api.jar (i.e. Suns API implementation) in the classpath or in one of Tomcat's lib directories (common/lib or shared/lib).
• Copy the file myfaces-examples.war to the webapps dir of your Tomcat installation directory.
• (Re)start Tomcat (there is a known log4j issue - see KnownIssues if you get errors!)
• Start your browser and enjoy it at http://localhost:8080/myfaces-examples.

Installing and Running Sun JSF-RI Samples with MyFaces

Using MyFaces in your own web application

• Look at the compatibility list to find out if your servlet container is supported.
• Download the latest MyFaces binary release (myfaces-1.0.7.tgz).
• Copy all jar files from the lib directory (myfaces.jar, cos.jar, jstl.jar, commons-el.jar and commons-logging.jar) to the WEB-INF/lib dir of your Webapplication.
• Make sure that there is no jsf-api.jar (i.e. Suns API implementation) in the classpath or in one of Tomcat's lib directories (common/lib or shared/lib).
• Configure your webapp's web.xml file (see conf/web.xml for example and documentation)
• Add the following lines to your JSPs:

• To be able to use the MyFaces extensions add the following line to your JSPs: