Invoking methods with parameters by EL in JSF 1.2

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I have seen in JSF 2 that it is possible to pass parameters to method calls. Is there anything equivalent in JSF 1.2?

Passing parameters to method calls is not specific to JSF 2. It is specific to EL 2.2, which is in turn part of JSP 2.2 / Servlet 3.0 / Java EE 6. JSF 2 just happens to be part of Java EE 6 as well. In other words, if you deploy your JSF 1.2 web application to a Servlet 3.0 compatible container like Tomcat 7, Glassfish 3, etc and your web.xml is declared conform Servlet 3.0 spec version, then it’ll just work out the box for JSF 1.x as well.

If you’re however still targeting a container of an older Servlet version, then you need to supply a different EL implementation which supports invoking methods with arguments. One of those implementations is JBoss-EL which you can install by just dropping the jboss-el.jar file in /WEB-INF/lib of your webapp and adding the following context parameter to the web.xml. Here’s a Mojarra-specific example (Mojarra is the codename of JSF RI):

<context-param>     
    <param-name>com.sun.faces.expressionFactory</param-name>
    <param-value>org.jboss.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl</param-value>   
</context-param>

If you’re using MyFaces as JSF implementation, you need the following context parameter instead:

<context-param>
    <param-name>org.apache.myfaces.EXPRESSION_FACTORY</param-name>
    <param-value>org.jboss.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl</param-value>   
</context-param>

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