Spring Boot 2 and Primefaces 6..... JoinFaces

http://joinfaces.org/ and https://github.com/joinfaces/joinfaces


git clone https://github.com/joinfaces/joinfaces-maven-jar-example.git
cd joinfaces-maven-jar-example
mvn clean install
(there are some test errors.... ignore them)

java -jar target/joinfaces-example-3.2.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

http://localhost:8080/starter.jsf


Unfortunately they use a parent pom....in Maven you can use only 1 parent pom (another reason to HATE MAVEN who is BROKEN BY DESIGN).... so if your application is already based on a parent pom, you are royally screwed.

Problem is, when I generate a project from Spring Boot Starters, the parent pom is:

<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.0.2.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>

while using joinfaces it's

<parent>
<groupId>org.joinfaces</groupId>
<artifactId>joinfaces-parent</artifactId>
<version>3.2.1</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>

you can clearly see from http://central.maven.org/maven2/org/joinfaces/joinfaces-parent/3.2.1/joinfaces-parent-3.2.1.pom that joinfaces includes all these dependencies http://central.maven.org/maven2/org/joinfaces/joinfaces-dependencies/3.2.1/joinfaces-dependencies-3.2.1.pom which entail also a parent:

<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.0.2.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/>
<!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>

No doubt, they have sorted out for you a massive dependency tree, saving a lot of time.

When I see such massive dependency tree, the question arises, why the Java world in 2018 is so ridiculously complicated and only getting worse. Please stop proliferation, focus on consolidation.