How to use omnifaces CDN resource handler with versioned resources? - jsf

Question

How to use omnifaces CDNResourceHandler with versioned resources?
Original url:
javax.faces.resource/jquery/jquery.js.xhtml?ln=primefaces&v=5.0
Desired url:
//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js
How to map this to a specific url, omitting the version query parameter?
Mapping:
Using following mapping appends the version query parameter to the final url resulting in 404 HTTP error.
primefaces:jquery/jquery.js=//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js
Results in:
//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js&v=5.0
System:
Glassfish 4
Mojarra 2.24
Primefaces 5.0
Rewrite 2.11

Answer 1

I reproduced it. This will happen when the PrimeFaces PrimeResourceHandler is initialized after OmniFaces CDNResourceHandler.
If you've declared the CDNResourceHandler inside /WEB-INF/faces-config.xml, then this is quite unexpected and likely a bug in GlassFish4.
But if you've declared the CDNResourceHandler inside /META-INF/faces-config.xml of a JAR which you in turn placed inside /WEB-INF/lib, then this can indeed happen if GlassFish initializes that JAR before the PrimeFaces JAR. In order to solve the problem, you need to explicitly declare your JAR's /META-INF/faces-config.xml to be initialized after the PrimeFaces one by adding the following entry to your JAR's /META-INF/faces-config.xml:
<ordering>
<after>
<name>primefaces</name>
</after>
</ordering>
Alternatively, move the CDNResourceHandler declaration to webapp's /WEB-INF/faces-config.xml.