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The portletfaces bridge project enables development of JSF 2.0 applications that run inside a Portlet 2.0 compliant portlet container, such as the one provided by Liferay Portal. In addition, the bridge facilitates the deployment of ICEfaces 2.0 applications. Currently at version 2.0.0-ALPHA2,  the production release of the bridge is scheduled to coincide with the production release of ICEfaces 2.0.

Project News

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July 30, 2010

Cut tag 2.0.0-ALPHA4 in SVN

Note that postback of forms still does not work correctly due to Mojarra issue#1604. Until then, you can use the custom jsf-impl.jar included with the  Examples.

New in this release:

  • Compatibility with Liferay Portal 6.0.3 and 6.0.4.
July 15, 2010

Cut tag 2.0.0-ALPHA3 in SVN

Note that postback of forms still does not work correctly due to Mojarra issue#1604. Until then, you can use the custom jsf-impl.jar included with the  Examples.

New in this release:

  • Support for Liferay Portal 6.0.2
  • Removed custom #{bridgeRequest Scope} ad it proved to be unnecessary
June 3, 2010

Cut tag 2.0.0-ALPHA2 in SVN

Note that postback of forms does not work correctly due to Mojarra issue#1604. Until then, you can use the custom jsf-impl.jar included with the  Examples.

New features in this release:

  • Preliminary support for ICEfaces 2.0 and the ICEfaces 1.8 "compatibility components."
  • Support for Portlet 2.0 Events Inter-Portlet Communication (IPC) via the JSR 329 BridgeEventHandler interface.
    • See Example #2 on the Examples page.
    • The example shows how to use the new "bridgeRequestScope" custom JSF 2.0 scope that spans the Portlet 2.0 EVENT_PHASE and RENDER_PHASE.
  • Preliminary support for JSF navigation-rules
  • Support for @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy annotation callbacks in JSF Managed Beans.
May 27, 2010

Cut tag 2.0.0-ALPHA1 in SVN (initial release)

Features include:

  • Preliminary support for JSF 2.0 within Portlet 2.0 compliant containers.  See Example #1 on the Examples page.
  • JSF 2.0 <f:ajax /> tag utilizes the Portlet 2.0 RESOURCE_PHASE for  XmlHttpRequests.
February, 11 2010The first portletfaces bridge webinar took place on Thursday, Feb 11 2010 AD. Click here to view the PDF slideshow.