How to use JSF versioning for resources in jar

Question

PF 3.5.10, Mojarra 2.1.21, omnifaces 1.5

I have a JSF library (with css files only). This library is in a .jar file. The css will be included in xhtml with &l

Answer 1

You can also use your project version and append it as a version number for your resource files. This can be done using the maven-war-plugin. The maven-war-plugin will look at your pages during the build time and replace the defined properties.

The following example shows you how to configure the maven-war-plugin to filter your webapp resources in order to inject the custom property asset.version:

pom.xml

  ...

  
    ${project.version}    
  

  ...

  
    
      ...

      
        org.apache.maven.plugins
        maven-war-plugin
        2.3
        

          
            gif
            ico
            jpg
            png
            pdf
          

          false

           
            
              ${basedir}/src/main/webapp 
              true 
            
           

        
      

      ...
    
  

The asset.version property can then be used in your JSF file.

Here is an example tested with JSF 2.2:

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