Author: Rafael Benevides
Maven Plugin to generate Validators and Converters for Seam 2.3 - Workaround for Richfaces 4 CDK
The converters and validators wasn’t available as related at https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBSEAM-4955
There is a related issue with Richfaces 4 the prevents this generation https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RF-12271
This plugin generates the conveters by looking for classes annotated with @FacesConvertes and the looks for its configs to generate its tag on s.taglib.xml
For validators the source of the information is the correspondent xml files
Just at the plugin information on jboss-seam-ui pom.xml
<build>
<plugins>
...
<!-- This need to be after Richfaces CDK plugin -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jboss.seam</groupId>
<artifactId>seam-cdk-helper</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>execute</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...