Can JSF 2.0 be used with Websphere application server version 7.x

Question

Can JSF 2.0 be used with WebSphere Application Server version 7.x?

If so, how?

Answer 1

Websphere ships with JSF 1.2.something and it loads that by default. To use a different JSF library (or any other library that WS provides such as commons-logging) you need to change the way the classloader prioritizes locations. They call it 'parent last" meaning load your libs then the WS versions.