Faces-config.xml is a configuration file

Question

By default, when you create a web application, faces-config.xmlit is not created automatically. We must create it manually, and, as I understand it, faces-config.xmlmust be strictly in WEB-INF.

So my question is:

Whether it is necessary to register faces-config.xmlin web.xmlafter creation in WEB-INFor in another folder or automatically register. That is, JSF "knows" what it is faces-config.xmland can find it in the entire project folder.

I hope I asked the right question .;)

Answer 1

As taken from the FacesServletdocumentation:

, web.xml web-fragment.xml, .

• faces-config.xml WEB-INF.

• faces-config.xml META-INF jar .

• , .faces-config.xml, META-INF jar .

• javax.faces.CONFIG_FILES web.xml web-fragment.xml.

• , onStartup() ServletContainerInitializer, .

-, :

• , , , WEB-INF/META-INF;

• web.xml:

  <context-param>
      <param-name>javax.faces.CONFIG_FILES</param-name>
      <param-value>
          WEB-INF/path/to/faces-config.xml
     </param-value>
  </context-param>
  

faces-config.xml , .