Migrate JSF managed beans to CDI managed beans
I'm planning to convert a web app from using JSF managed bean to using CDI managed beans. I know I'll need to do below:
Is that all that needs to be done? Are there any gotchas that I need to be aware of?
Basically, that's indeed all you need to do provided that you're on a Java EE server already. When on Tomcat, you'd need to manually install CDI first. Instructions for both Weld and OpenWebBeans are detailed in the blog How to install CDI in Tomcat?
The below gotchas need to be taken care of:
While OmniFaces 2.x "officially" requires JSF 2.2, OmniFaces 2.0/2.1 is technically backwards compatible with JSF 2.1 and should in TomEE's case work on TomEE 1.x with JSF 2.1 as well, but OmniFaces 2.2 has a hard JSF 2.2 dependency (due to the new <o:viewAction> tag) and won't deploy on TomEE 1.x without upgrading its MyFaces JSF implementation to a 2.2 compatible version, or itself being upgraded to TomEE 7.x. See also OmniFaces Compatibility Matrix.
When you deploy an EAR with multiple WARs with each its own OmniFaces library, then generally all CDI functionality will work in only one WAR as the CDI context of a WAR-provided library is incorrectly interpreted as EAR-wide. This is an oversight in CDI spec and yet to be fixed in a future CDI version. See also OmniFaces Known Issues (CDI).
When you want to use OmniFaces-provided CDI injection support in @FacesConverter or @FacesValidator , and you're going to create/use a CDI 1.1 compatible beans.xml (and thus not a CDI 1.0 compatible one or an empty one), then you need to make sure that you have explicitly set bean-discovery-mode="all" in beans.xml . See also @FacesConverter showcase.
When replacing @ManagedBean(eager=true) , be aware that standard CDI has no equivalent for this. OmniFaces offers @Eager annotation for the purpose.
When replacing @ManagedProperty , be aware that you can't inject #{param.xxx} , #{cookie.xxx} and #{initParam.xxx} directly via @Inject alone, while that was just possible via @ManagedProperty . OmniFaces offers respectively @Param , @Cookie and @ContextParam for the purpose.
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