If you’ve been following the evolution of the JSF 2 spec closely, you have probably seen the addition of a finer-grained event system (if you haven’t seen it, section 3.4 of the spec is the relevant one). These events include things like AfterAddToViewEvent, BeforeRenderEvent, ViewMapCreatedEvent, etc. An application developer could subscribe to these events from a managed bean by using the API exposed by the new system. While that is a big improvement over the way things work in 1.2, it still leave page authors out in the cold until, that is, this week. Yesterday I committed the code to support declarative even handling to Mojarra. In this short entry, we’ll take a look at what that entails, and how to use it. (more…)

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GlassFish isn’t just an application server. It’s a community. For that reason, we on the admin console team want to take some time to run some ideas by the user community. For the GlassFish v3 final release due in the middle of next year, we plan to redesign the admin console. Since the admin console is usually high on the list of differentiators, we are approaching these changes very cautiously, as we don’t want to ruin a good thing. Our goals are to make the console lighter and faster, and use a more modern design. Our plan, then has several parts, which we’ll look at individually. (more…)

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If so, you might be interested in the latest webinar from The Aquarium covering Java EE 6 and Servlet 3.0. Spec leads Roberto Chinnici and Rajiv Mordani will be leading the next session covering these two topics. Eduardo has the details.

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As the specification writing part of JSF 2 comes to a close, we’re getting a more complete implementation done on the reference implementation, Mojarra. One of the primary developers on Mojarra is Jim Driscoll (the other being Ryan Lubke, who has done such an excellent job on the 1.2 series)¹. Jim, apparently, has been in a writing mood and has posted a number of very good (and small) posts on some of the features coming in JSF 2 (similar to Ryan’s series from earlier this year).

I was about to start planning a smallish app, to be based on JSF 2, so I was perusing Jim’s entries, and it occurred to me that a list of the links would be helpful for those following JSF 2 but not Jim’s feed, so here it is. I hope it helps.

• Writing a simple Composite Component with JSF 2.0
• A simple Ajax JSF 2.0 example
• JSF 2.0: Writing a Spinner component
• JSF 2.0: Adding Styles to the Spinner Component
• JSF 2.0: Writing fully reusable Ajax Component
• Another JSF 2.0 Ajax Component: Editable Text
• JSF 2.0: The Switchlist example
• JSF 2.0: The f:ajax tag

I know Jim has more planned, so subscribe to his feed. It should be well worth your time.

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With the release of JavaFX 1.0 scheduled for this Thursday, December 4, the JavaFX team set up a technical pre-launch call and invited JUG leaders, Java Champions, NetBeans Dream Team members and others to call in and get a sneak peak at what was coming (audio and slides available here). Josh Marinacci was the engineer on hand to give us the preview. A couple of things stood out to me that has me pretty excited. (more…)

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The current state of the JSF 2 spec has entered the Public Review phase. If you have any interest in JSF, now is a good time to review what we’ve done in the spec thus far and send feedback, which we will discuss and digest for the Proposed Final Draft due out next. You can find the Public Review here, and you can send your comments here.

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