What is the use of faces-config.xml in JSF 2?

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It’s still to be used for many things which can’t be annotated. E.g. custom JSF validation messages:

<application>
    <message-bundle>com.example.i18n.messages</message-bundle>
</application>

A global i18n bundle (so that you don’t need to declare <f:loadBundle> in every view):

<application>
    <resource-bundle>
        <base-name>com.example.i18n.Text</base-name>
        <var>text</var>
    </resource-bundle>
</application>

Explicitly supported i18n locales (so that the not-declared ones will be ignored even though there’s a message bundle or resource bundle for it):

<application>
    <locale-config>
        <default-locale>en</default-locale>
        <supported-locale>nl</supported-locale>
        <supported-locale>es</supported-locale>         
        <supported-locale>de</supported-locale>         
    </locale-config>
</application>

Custom view handlers:

<application>
    <view-handler>com.example.SomeViewHandler</view-handler>
</application>

Phase listeners (there’s still no annotation for that):

<lifecycle>
    <phase-listener>com.example.SomePhaseListener</phase-listener>
</lifecycle>

Managed beans which can’t be annotated (the below one gives current Date on #{now}):

<managed-bean>
    <description>Current date and time</description>
    <managed-bean-name>now</managed-bean-name>
    <managed-bean-class>java.util.Date</managed-bean-class>
    <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>

Custom factories, such as custom exception handler factory (it also allows factories for FacesContext, ExternalContext, LifeCycle and many more so that you can provide your custom implementation):

<factory>
    <exception-handler-factory>com.example.SomeExceptionHandlerFactory</exception-handler-factory>
</factory>

To name only the commonly used ones. If you have faces-config.xml tag autocompletion in your IDE, you can find them all out. Only the managed beans, validators, converters, components, renderers and point-to-point navigation cases are not needed anymore thanks to the new annotations and implicit navigation.

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