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Asked: 2026-06-13T05:50:10+00:00

In a JSF application, the parameter javax.faces.FACELETS_REFRESH_PERIOD can be used to enable/disable automatic reloading

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In a JSF application, the parameter javax.faces.FACELETS_REFRESH_PERIOD can be used to enable/disable automatic reloading of XHTML files.

I am currently researching the right configuration for production deployments, and accidentally found out that we currently run with FACELETS_REFRESH_PERIOD=1 even in production, which is obviously not a good idea.

This lead to the question: What is the default value for this parameter?

Ideally, I’d like to just omit FACELETS_REFRESH_PERIOD from our production config for simplicity’s sake, and hoped it would use a “safe” default value of -1. However, this does not seem to be the case, because without the parameter, refreshing seems to be enabled (with both Mojarra and MyFaces).

I checked the JSF spec, and while it describes the parameter, it does not give a default. Is this a deliberate omission in the spec?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The default is implementation dependent.

    Given that you’re using Mojarra, you can find the default in the com.sun.faces.config.WebConfiguration class:

    768         FaceletsDefaultRefreshPeriod(
769               "javax.faces.FACELETS_REFRESH_PERIOD",
770               "2"
771         )

    (line numbers are from Mojarra 2.0.0)

    The default is thus 2. I can’t find this in any Mojarra documentation. It might be worth to post an issue report to Mojarra guys to better document it.

    MyFaces has according its documentation also a default value of 2.

    Update: From Mojarra 2.2.11, the default value is set to -1 if project stage is Production. See also issue 3792.

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