I think the major confusion on using the ui widget bridge:inputFile is that the property "binding" is not in the TLD. So, if you are using a TLD-aware IDE, such as NetBeans, it will show a syntax error on that tag.
Also this below:
<factory>
<faces-context-factory>org.edorasframework.portletfaces.bridge.sun.FacesContextFactoryImpl</faces-context-factory>
</factory>
Is not required in your faces-config.xml file. It worked for me without that. When I did add that to the faces-config.xml, I got a SEVERE: Listener start error while trying to deploy the portlet.
Using:
Majorra 2.0.6 (jsf-api and jsf-impl)
Portlet Bridge 2.0.0
I was able to get bridge:inputFile working with no problem. Remember too, the property "binding" must point to an HtmlInputFile inside of a managed bean and the commandButton or commandLink used to submit the form must point to an ActionListener not just an action.
I hope this helps someone. It took me like 5 days to get this thing working. As a follow up I should probably post a small code example.
