{#asciidoc} = JavaServer Faces 2.0 Is Final! Jason Lee 2009-05-27

See the Executive Committee for SE/EE vote here. Download Mojarra, the reference implementation, here.

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{#asciidoc} = FacesTester 0.2 Has Been Released

Today we released FacesTester 0.2. While this release has a number of bug fixes and more minor enhancements, one of the biggest new features is injection support. Leveraging the InjectionProvider Service Provider Interface (SPI) provided by Mojarra, FacesTester now supports the automagic injection of mock/test objects. For example, the following managed bean:

{#asciidoc} = Making Tables Harder Than They Need To Be Jason Lee 2009-05-13

I know you’re not supposed to do this, but sometimes it’s just easier. Sometimes I use `table`s to layout out my forms. Especially for big forms, it’s just easier to put things in a table than deal with `label`s, CSS, etc. Right or wrong, I do it from time to time, but, thanks to David Geary, I just learned that I make it harder on myself than it needs to be. The sad thing is that I’ve known about this solution for years now, but never put two and two together.

{#asciidoc} = UPDATED: Web Beans Webinar Jason Lee 2009-05-11

On May 19th, Pete Muir, JSF 2.0 Expert Group member and Web Beans implementation lead (if I recall correctly) will be leading, in conjunction with The Aquarium, a webinar covering the forthcoming Java Contexts and Dependency Injection JSR (JSR-299, formerly known by the JSR’s former name, Web Beans). Unfortunately, that’s right in the middle of the Oklahoma City JUG’s meeting, so I can’t make it, especially since I’m this month’s speaker. For those of you that won’t be attending the OKC JUG tomorrow, this should be a good session on a great spec. I hope to catch the recording. Not as good as attending live, but it’s all I’ll be able to manage.

Dan Allen was nice enough to point out that I misread the announcement, which means OKC people can hear me talk AND attend this webinar. Win win! (win! ; )

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{#asciidoc} = Book Review: Practical RichFaces

One of the great strengths and successes, I think, of the JavaServer Faces specification is the proliferation of third party components. One of the older and better known component sets is RichFaces, which started out under a company called Exadel and is now part of JBoss. For many, RichFaces is the first add-on component set for a new JSF project, and with good reason. I recently had the opportunity to serve as a technical reviewer on Max Katz’s Practical RichFaces from Apress. Read on for my review of the book.