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JSF 2.0 features vs JSF 1.2 in a Nutshell

Posted by on July 18, 2012 No comments

by Kuldip Bajwa

Below is the list of JSF 2.0 features vs JSF 1.2

  • AJAX support within tags – had to write bespoke tags previously
  • Composite components – This feature enables creating true JSF components as aggregations of other JSF components. With this feature, it is easy to build your own custom JSF components and to refactor your existing views into reusable components, complete with listeners, attributes, and events.
  • Partial State Saving – one of the biggest complaints agasint JSF has been the amount of memory it consumes to maintain view state between requests. This feature dramatically reduces the amount of memory for this purpose, as well as greatly simplifying the API for handling state when developing custom components.
  • View Parameters – Another big complaint against JSF is insistence on using POST for inter-page navigations.
  • Navigation Enhancements – JSF 2.0 bring several enhancements to navigation, including bookmarkability, navigation with XML navigation rules, conditional navigation, support for the POST-REDIRECT-GET pattern, flash, and runtime, and runtime inspection of navigation rules.
  • Exception Handling – JSF 2.0 now has a central ExceptionHandler through which all exception funnelled. This enables easily constructing an error page that uses JSF components.
  • Expression Language Enhancements – Several new implicit objects have been introduced, and the EL now supports method invocation on arbitrary Java methods, including parameter passing.
  • Validation – An entirely new Java specification has been developed to address validation, JSR-303 Bean Validation. This specification integrates well with JSF 2.0.
  • New scopes – In addition to the flash scope, JSF 2.0 also provides a mechanism for defining custom scopes.
  • FacesContext Servlet access is now available during application startup and shutdown.
  • JSF 2.0 now allows the developer to tell the runtime in what phase of the software development lifecycle the runtime is executing.
  • Annotations may obviate the need for XML. Navigation can be completely be done without XML configuration


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Java Server Faces ( JSF 1.0 / JSF 1.1 / JSF 1.1_01 / JSF 1.2 / JSF2.0 ) Comparision Table

Posted by on March 2, 2012 No comments
Version JSR Release What’s on the release? Support Release Date Additional Info
JSF 1.0 JSR 127 Initial release of the JSF specification. Separate release that wasn’t part of any Java EE/J2EE release. Servlet 2.3 and
JSP 1.2		 11/03/2004 DEPRECATED
JSF 1.1 JSR 127 just bug fixes released and no changes to rendering HTML kit Servlet 2.3 and
JSP 1.2		 02/05/2004 DEPRECATED
JSF 1.1_01 bug fixes and performance improvements. JDK 1.3.1 or later.
JSF 1.2 JSR 252 Many improvements to core systems and APIs. Coincides with Java EE 5. Initial adoption into Java EE. Servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.1
But minimum it supports Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2.
Tomcat support 6.0 not 5.5.version		 11/05/2006
JSF 2.0 Major release for ease of use, enhanced functionality, and performance. Coincides with Java EE 6. 28/06/2009
JSF 2.1 Current version. Second maintenance release of 2.0. Only very minor amount of spec changes 22/10/2010
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