Remove BridgeContext, BridgeContextWrapper, and BridgeContextFactory

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: bridge-api-2.0.0, bridge-api-3.0.0, bridge-api-4.0.0
• Component/s: FacesBridge API, Liferay Faces Bridge API
• Labels: None

BridgeContext and BridgeContextFactory were introduced in FACES-201 as part of a coordination effort between Oracle, JBoss, and Liferay for supporting JSF 2.x in a Portlet 2.0 environment. Later on, BridgeContextWrapper was introduced as an extension point in FACES-1269.

BridgeContext was meant to provide an abstraction that could be used by the Bridge's implementation of ExternalContext. However, it was designed as a ThreadLocal singleton similar to FacesContext and introduced unnecessary overhead. Over the years it became evident that a more appropriate extension point would be to decorate the Portlet API with things like BridgePortletRequestFactory, BridgePortletResponseFactory (FACES-2088), and BridgePortletContextFactory (FACES-2272).

This issue serves as a task for removing BridgeContext, BridgeContextWrapper, and BridgeContextFactory from the Bridge API.