Creating and running project made with RichFaces Forge addon

Prerequsities

• JDK 1.6 or better

• Maven 3.0.3 or later

• Forge (link to home page)

Creating project

• start Forge, then from the Forge prompt do the following steps:

  • install RichFaces addon:

    • from maven repository:

      • addon-install --coordinate

      • org.richfaces.forge:richfaces-forge-addon

    • or from git: addon-install-from-git --url https://github.com/richfaces/richfaces-forge-plugin.git

  • create project (see Forge documentation)

    • e.g. project-new --named richfaces-example --topLevelPackage org.richfaces.example --type war --finalName richfaces-example

  • then run following commands to install:

    • Servlet API: servlet-setup

    • JavaServer Faces: faces-setup

    • RichFaces 4.5.0: richfaces-setup

    • RichFaces facelet: richfaces-facelet

Build/Deploy the project

• to build the example just run mvn package from the project root

• then deploy the final richfaces-example.war on a JEE6 container (WildFly 8, JBoss EAP 6, etc.)

• after deploying the example to your server open a browser and type 'http://localhost:8080/richfaces-example' to view the application. Note that the URL depends on the context on which your application server deployed the example application.