Installing Apache My Faces

You install Apache My Faces as follows:

1. Download the Apache MyFaces JSF implementation from the Apache MyFaces Project website: http://myfaces.apache.org/

   Select the current release of Apache MyFaces, for example, myfaces-1.1.1.zip.

2. Download the current release of Apache MyFaces, and unzip it into a folder, which will contain the following jar files:
   
   

   • myfaces-all.jar

   • myfaces-api.jar

   • myfaces-impl.jar

   Remove the myfaces-api.jar and myfacs-impl.jar files.

3. Download the dependency jar files from the same site and copy the jar files of the folder myfaces-blank-example\WEB-INF\lib to the Apache MyFaces lib folder. You should have the following jar files:
   
   

   • commons-beanutils-1.6.1.jar

   • commons-codec-1.2.jar

   • commons-collections-3.0.jar

   • commons-digester-1.5.jar

   • commons-el.jar

   • commons-logging.jar

   • commons-validator.jar

   • log4j-1.2.8.jar

4. Define a "JSF_LIB" variable in the PowerDesigner "General Options" window, Variables tab to indicate the Apache MyFaces implementation lib folder path.