JSF 2 Internals - Configurations

In JSF 2, there is almost no need to mention any configuration in a small application and defaults values are sufficient enough to fulfill the purpose. All the default configurations are in com.sun.faces.WebConfiguration. As i mentioned in my previous blog post, JSF has implemented ServletContainerInitializer which is new interface in Servlet 3.0 in order to register servlets and other stuff programmatically at the time of loading application. In 'onStartUp' method, it adds listener com.sun.faces.ConfigureListener. It implements various interface listeners like ServletRequestListener, HttpSessionListener, ServletContextListener, ServletRequestAttributeListener, HttpSessionAttributeListener, ServletContextAttributeListener. Most important for loading configuration is ServletCotextListeenr which has two methods contextInitialized and contextDestroyed. contextInitialized  is called when application loads and ServletContext is created, so this is the best time to load configurations in JEE web applications. JSF 2 also gets benefit of this and creates WebConfiguration Object and loads default values for configurations. If application has its own values mentioned in web.xml, they are overriden.