News & Events

Following the release of Spring 2.0, the JSF-Spring team is working on a release that will provide Spring 2.0 compatibility and some exciting new features:

• A new implementation of JSF-Spring Config using Spring’s namespace handlers. JSF-Spring Config enables the configuration of JSF plugins and components using Spring with all of it’s configuration facilities.
• Integration of any kind of controller into JSF’s lifecycle via SpringMVC. The controller will be mapped using URLs just like in SpringMVC, but it will be executed within JSF’s lifecycle.
• Forms that will issue GET requests which will run through JSF’s lifecycle and use selective state saving.

The JSF-Spring developers have been greatly disappointed by the lack of “webness” they experienced in their JSF projects, given the fact that everything is a POST and the dependency to javascript. The latter two features are an attempt to enable developers to take advantage of JSF as a component based framework on one hand but still deliver applications that conform to well established web standards on the other hand. More information can be found here.