Rich Applications using Richfaces, JPA and MySQL

Hi...thought of writing this for the benefit of those who are building apps using JSF (Richfaces), JPA and MySQL. I have been playing around a lot with Appfuse and I feel it is still the best working and supported quick start application available in the market to setup and start your project in no time. Though to get it to work with Richfaces took some time to mature to a point where I can now start helping you guys out there who have some questions and can't find an answer or a solution.

My current issues with RichFaces is with browser compatibility and consistency across browsers :(