Hi all,

I only developed extension plugins in Liferay using jsp portlet but the others in my new company only know about jsf 2.0. So I'm finding a document about creating jsf 2.0 portlet in liferay portal 6.05 step by step, can you help me?
What's the best and quick technology for developer develop portlet in Liferay 6.05?

Yep, that's what the PortletFaces-Bridge project is all about: http://www.portletfaces.org/projects/portletfaces-bridge

There's some example portlets there at the website for JSF 2.0 and ICEfaces. Just click on the Examples link.

Hey Neil,

Can you tell me how to use the <liferay:..> or <aui:..> tags with JSF 2.0? I want to use the liferay and aui tags for many functionalities provided by liferay like popup, pagination, sorting etc...

sorry I forgot to tell you that I am using liferay 6.0.4 with JSF 2.0 and using .xhtml files for JSF 2.0

Yes, we're working on two new projects at portletfaces.org: AlloyFaces and LiferayFaces. There's no official documentation right now, but the following post has some information:
http://www.portletfaces.org/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/48007#_19_message_50574

- Hi Neil Griffin!
- I'am newbie in liferay portal.
- I was now integrated into Liferay JSF and RichFaces and error when using javascript to get the id of the JSF control.
- Please, Neil Griffin help me in the shorted time!
- Thanks so much!

I'm not aware of any other users on the liferay.com or portletfaces.org forums trying the PortletFaces Bridge with RichFaces. You might be one of the first trying this.

- Thanks Neil Griffin!
- I'm a student come from VietNam!
- I'm studying about Richface framework!
- I had got a problem in JSF(Richface) Portlet when I used JavaScript!
That problem is : I could not get a value into a <h:inputText /> with JavaScript!
Can you help me?
This is my code:
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<f:view>
<script type="text/javascript">
function check() {
var result = document.getElementById("myform:form").value;
alert(result);
}
</script>
<h:form id="myform">
<h3>Hello :</h3>
<h:inputText value="" id="form" />
<h:commandButton value="OK" onclick="check();"/>
</h:form>
</f:view>
</ui:composition>

I recommend that you read this thread: http://www.portletfaces.org/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/51121

hey Neil,

I am working on JSF 2 + Liferay Portal + Glassfish v2.1.1 and I am new to these technologies. I really need your help for clearing some of my concepts related to JSF lifecycle and portal development.


Objective: resolving queries on certain Liferay Concepts and issues faced during development.

So far, I have had success in doing the following with some research and development, as well as trial & error:
1. IPC within two WAR files
2. Downloading files, facing problems with filetypes such as PDF/XLS
3. Left Hand Menu (tree view control) and Portlet Navigation through tree view menu



Problem Statements and queries:
While doing the above, I faced the following problems:
1. While portal development I always face certain issue for few functionalities like IPC withing two different .war files, downloading PDF/XLS, Left hand Navigation menu etc. While developing these things I need my backing bean to extend GenericFacesPortlet and override serveResource actionResponse, processEvent, doView methods etc. But whenever I do that I always face many problems like commandLink stops working when I am using it in dataTable or I get null pointer exception when at FacesContext.getExternalContext etc.
2. Also I am confused about which method of GenericFacesPortlet is invoked during which phase and when my own methods get called and how.
3. Do the overridden methods of GenericFacesPortlet affect my own written methods?
4. How the portlet lifecycle and JSF lifecycle interact with each other?
5. Is there any standard architecture which I should follow while portlet development along with GenericFacesPortlet.

The answers to these question will help me to develop my code in a proper way so that none of my business logic gets disturbed.

Rather than extend GenericFacesPortlet to do IPC between two WAR files (Portlet 2.0 Events IPC), I think it's better to use the JSR 329 standard mechanism for doing that via the PortletFaces Bridge. Here's an example of how to do it: http://www.portletfaces.org/portletfaces-bridge/examples/jsf-2.0-events-ipc

Hey Hi,

Can you tell me how to use Liferay-ui search container using LiferayFaces?

The LiferayFaces project currently doesn't have a liferay-ui:search-container tag. This is because JSF developers typically use an h:dataTable or ice:dataTable instead.

Along those lines, I just committed an example ICEfaces 2 CRUD portlet to the portletfaces.org SVN repository that might be of help to you:
http://svn.portletfaces.org/svn/portletfaces/portlets/examples/icefaces2-crud-portlet/trunk/

It shows how to use an ice:dataTable with ajaxified pagination, etc.

Hey Neil,

I tried to build the project using mvn clean package but it failed at

Ooops, sorry about that.

This one hasn't had an official release yet like the other examples at portletfaces.org

I just removed the parent entry from the pom.xml -- if you do an svn update it should work. Please give it another try.

Fixed, thanks!

Hi Neil

Thanks for your reply.