What to do if the URL that the browser uses is not the same as the URL that the application thinks it is found at, due to the presenve of a reverse proxy between the application and the browser.

Using a ViewHandler to modify the action URLs.

This example uses Context Init Parameters to determine what to prepend. (And similarly one could replace rather than prepending, if desired.)

What to do if the URL that the browser uses is not the same as the URL that the application thinks it is found at, due to the presenve of a reverse proxy between the application and the browser.

Using a ViewHandler to modify the action URLs.

This example uses ../ injection.

Location of the API jar of EL 2.2

Location of the reference implementation of EL 2.2

How to enable EL 2.2 in Tomcat 6: includes the all-important context parameter to tell Apache Myfaces which expression factory to use, and a tip on renaming the default el-api.jar away.

Help on getting EL 2.2 running on Tomcat 6 - includes hints on dropping el-api-2.2 into Tomcat's lib directory and el-impl-2.2 into your own WEB_INF/lib.

This article describes how to get JSF 2.0 running under Tomcat 6 - including Java EE 6 EL 2.2, which lets you (among other things) use arguments in action methods.

Note that the SNAPSHOT URLs listed in the article are a bit out of date; 2.2 final jars are available now.

Tomcat 6 does not support parameters in method expressions (a JSF 2.0 feature).

However, it is possible to download an implementation of EL 2.2, which then lets you use this in Tomcat.