Announcement: Liferay Faces 4.x M1 Released (JSF 2.2 Support)

[Neil Griffin，修改在10 年前。]

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to mention here in the forums that we released Liferay Faces 4.x M1 with support for JSF 2.2.

For more details, see the blog announcement.

-- Neil

[Oleg Efimov，修改在9 年前。]

Hi Neil,

I'm using Liferay 6.2 + Liferay Faces Bridge 4.2.0-m1 + MyFaces 2.2.4 (I haven't found in the docs if MyFaces is officially supported by you, but it works).

The problem I faced was that MyFaces and Mojarra created UIViewRoot using different methods of javax.faces.application.Application:

• Mojarra uses createComponent(String) (see com.sun.faces.application.view.ViewHandlingStrategy:142)
• MyFaces uses createComponent(FacesContext, String, String) (see org.apache.myfaces.shared.view.ViewDeclarationLanguageBase:53)

Bridge implementation currently overrides only the method Mojarra uses. After I patched the class com.liferay.faces.bridge.application.ApplicationImpl, overriding the method for MyFaces, everything started working nicely:

    @Override
    public UIComponent createComponent(FacesContext facesContext, String componentType, String rendererType) {
        if (componentType.equals(UIViewRoot.COMPONENT_TYPE) && BridgeUtil.isPortletRequest()) {
            return createComponent(componentType);
        } else {
            return super.createComponent(facesContext, componentType, rendererType);
        }
    }

So I suggest including this patch in the next version.

[Neil Griffin，修改在9 年前。]

Hi Oleg,

Thanks so much for reporting this problem. I created FACES-1967 in order to track this to closure. When you get a chance, can you follow the steps in the Contributing to Liferay Faces wiki article and send a pull request with your contribution?

Kind Regards,

Neil

[Neil Griffin，修改在9 年前。]

BTW, we are not able to support MyFaces in production at this time because there are too many other portlet-related issues/incompatibilities. However, we are happy to merge any fixes that might make MyFaces work better.

[Oleg Efimov，修改在9 年前。]

Hi Neil,

Created pull request.

Two more questions please:

• Approximately at what date 4.2.0 M2/RC/GA is scheduled?
• Is there a chance my changes make it to the release?

Cheers,
Oleg.

[Neil Griffin，修改在9 年前。]

Hi Oleg,

Thanks for sending the pull request. Can I also ask you to please complete Step 12 from the Contributing to Liferay Faces wiki article?

Approximately at what date 4.2.0 M2/RC/GA is scheduled?

We don't have production release dates yet for 4.2.0-GA, but we hope to show a technology preview in the next few weeks and a BETA release in late September.

Is there a chance my changes make it to the release?

Sure, please complete Step 12 and we will try to get it merged in the next 2-3 weeks.

Kind Regards,

Neil

[Oleg Efimov，修改在9 年前。]

Done with step 12 BTW -- maybe it should be highlighted somehow, it's really easy to miss it after very prominent step 11.

Regards,
Oleg.

[Neil Griffin，修改在9 年前。]

Hi Oleg,

Oleg Efimov:

Done with step 12 BTW -- maybe it should be highlighted somehow, it's really easy to miss it after very prominent step 11.

Thanks so much for the advice -- I just applied a yellow background color highlight to Step 12.

Kind Regards,

Neil

[Oleg Efimov，修改在9 年前。]

Hi Neil,

Any chances this pull request (https://github.com/liferay/liferay-faces/pull/250) will make it into release?

Thanks,
Oleg.

[Neil Griffin，修改在9 年前。]

Hi Oleg,

I just updated the FACES-1967 ticket -- we are hoping to be able to merge pull request 250 by late November. I'm sorry for the delay -- our development sprint schedule is controlling the timeline right now. Thanks so much for your patience.

Kind Regards,

Neil