2009-09-02

A great article about JSF 2

I found a great article on the JSF 2 Spec (the View technology of choice for the Java EE 6 stack) and what's new/updated from JSF 1.2.

It serves as an overview to the new features in the JSF 2 and not as a comprehensive review of a single feature, it covers:

  • The inclusion of the Facelets technology in the JSF standard and the View Declaration Language
  • The composite components (or construct-your-own-component-without-major-hassle)
  • New standardized Ajax support and the Ajax request lifecycle management
  • The (inspired by Apache MyFaces Trinidad) partial state saving
  • New system events
  • Improved navigation system
  • GET requests improved support and the view parameters
  • The (Seam-inspired) additional scopes (View/Flash/Custom Scopes)
  • The new (and much awaited) Managed Beans annotations
  • New project stage declaration (for separation between production and development stages)
  • The new client behaviors
  • New bean validation system and the new validators
  • Improved error handling
  • Resource Loading

The article is available here What’s New in JSF 2 by andyschwartz

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