Including the Required JAR Files

JavaServer Faces applications require several JAR files to run properly. These JAR files are as follows:

• jsf-api.jar (contains the javax.faces.* API classes)

• jsf-impl.jar (contains the implementation classes of the JavaServer Faces implementation)

• jstl.jar (required to use JSTL tags and referenced by JavaServer Faces implementation classes)

• standard.jar (required to use JSTL tags and referenced by JavaServer Faces reference implementation classes)

• commons-beanutils.jar (utilities for defining and accessing JavaBeans component properties)

• commons-digester.jar (for processing XML documents)

• commons-collections.jar (extensions of the Java 2 SDK Collections Framework)

• commons-logging.jar (a general-purpose, flexible logging facility to allow developers to instrument their code with logging statements)

The jsf-api.jar and the jsf-impl.jar files are located in as-install/lib. The jstl.jar file is bundled in appserv-jstl.jar. The other JAR files are bundled in the appserv-rt.jar, also located in as-install/lib/.

When packaging and deploying your JavaServer Faces application, you do not need to explicitly package any of the JAR files.