How to upload files in JSF 1.1?

Question

I want to upload files in a JSF 1.1 project. JSF 1.1 doesn't support RichFaces file upload. I looked at Tomahawk, but I don't know how to use Tomahawk. Can anybody explain for me?

• Which JARs do I have to use?
• And taglibs?
• And web.xml configuration?
• And faces-config.xml configuration?

Or are there alternatives to Tomahawk?

Answer 1

Which JARs do I have to use?

The following ones:

• tomahawk
• commons-fileupload
• commons-io
• commons-logging
• commons-el

I assume that you already have the JSF 1.1 JARs jsf-api and jsf-impl.

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And taglibs?

Just the Tomahawk one, next to the two usual core/html tags:

<%@ taglib uri="http://myfaces.apache.org/tomahawk" prefix="t" %>

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And web.xml configuration?

You need the ExtensionsFilter. This filter will take care that JSF gets the right parameters out of a multipart/form-data request body.

<filter>
    <filter-name>Extensions Filter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.apache.myfaces.webapp.filter.ExtensionsFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>Extensions Filter</filter-name>
    <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
</filter-mapping>

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And faces-config.xml configuration?

Nothing special. Just create a managed bean the usual way with a UploadedFile property which you bind to the value attribute of <t:inputFileUpload>.

See also:

• How to upload files in JSF? (yes, it's targeted on JSF 1.2, but should work equally good in JSF 1.1).