I've encountered an issue with 1.8.0DR1 that does not allow me to move forward with it.. My webflows are losing state on browser refresh where
this is not happening with 1.7.2. Until this can be fixed I have to revert back to 1.7.2.
 
Attached is templateClient.war. This war works with 1.7.2 version of jars with a hybrid version of BridgeFacesContext which is a copy of the original 1.8.0dr1 BridgeFacesContext modified so it compiles under 1.7.2
 
In the war you will see 3 source files also attached. In each of files you can search for keyword "garpinc" so see modifications..
 
The working combination is BridgeFacesContext.java.hybrid172-180dr1 with 1.7.2 jars
 
If I put 1.8.0dr1 jars with the 180dr1 version it doesn't work
If I put 1.7.2 jars with 172 version it also doesn't work
If I put 1.8.0dr1 jars with hybrid172-180dr1 jars it doesn't work
 
To run war you will need to modify appserver jvm to add argument...
-Dconfig.filename=dev