JSF Preview | May 8th, 2008
A while back we partnered with Gigline Software to create JSF components based on our Complete UI suite. So to coincide with JavaOne, we have a preview build available to download (and by we, I mean Eric from Gigline. Great job!): Preview Release with live samples hosted at Gigline: http://giglinesoftware.com/NitobiJSFWeb
This preview release already has some nifty features. All the Nitobi JSF tags support value exressions on all attributes (save for the id attribute). Also, all the javascript and css files are bundled in the jar and will be loaded by the component automatically. Plus, there is a JSF tag for the Callout component allowing you to declaratively bind a Callout panel to a DOM element.
This is but a taste of things to come. Here’s what we’re trying to get into the final build, due for our forthcoming Q3 release:
- Make all data-dependent components able to populate through managed beans.
- Create a phase listener for all data-dependent components to handle parameters and simplify a bit.
- Get the rest of the components JSF compatible (including the new Tree Grid component).
- Short hand JSF tags that will allow developers to combine existing components together, without the need to muck about with javascript.
So for you JSF devs out there, give it go and let us know what you think!