JSF 1.1 to 1.2 migration - maven-2

Question

I'm currently using JSF 1.1 on Apache Tomcat 6.0.13, with maven 2.
I'm planing to migrate from JSF 1.1 to 1.2. Could someone point me at:
- what JSF implementation is best to use
- is this implementation available at maven central repository
- what part of code will I need to adjust (I'm using custom tags in my project, but besides that it's all plain JSF)
etc.
Any info would be helpful... Thanx!
[edit 1]:
Hm, it haven't worked for me. Dependencies cannot be downloaded from the repository you've specified. Maybe it's because this is link for maven 1 repository. I'm using following pom settings instead:
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
<type>jar</type>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-api.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-impl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
<type>jar</type>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/jsf-impl.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>
I hope this approach is the correct one. If someone has a more maven-friendly solution, please advise. Thanx!
[edit 2]:
After I've changed my JSF jar from 1.1. to 1.2, following error occurred during application startup:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Application was not properly initialized at startup, could not find Factory:
javax.faces.context.FacesContextFactory
To fix this error, additional listener need to be added in web.xml:
<listener>
<listener-class>com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener</listener-class>
</listener>

Answer 1

Have a look at the following release notes that has a migration guide from 1.1 to 1.2
http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
The maven2 artifacts for JSF 1.2 have found their way in the standard maven2 repository located at http://http://repo1.maven.org/maven2
JSF Implementation
http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/javax/faces/jsf-impl/1.2-b19/
JSF API
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/javax/faces/jsf-api/1.2-b19/
As such, you shouldn't require any special repository setup in your pom.xml or settings.xml
The dependencies can be defined like this in the pom (1.2-b19 is the latest version at the time of writing) :
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>
<version>1.2-b19</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-impl</artifactId>
<version>1.2-b19</version>
</dependency>
Included below is a full pom.xml that should contain the basic dependencies for starting a JSF 1.2 project
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.ecs.sample.jsf</groupId>
<artifactId>SampleJsfPom</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.5</source>
<target>1.5</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>
<version>1.2-b19</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-impl</artifactId>
<version>1.2-b19</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.facelets</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-facelets</artifactId>
<version>1.1.11</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-digester</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-digester</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId>
<version>1.7.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
<version>3.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>