There is also a dialog feature in jQuery Mobile however that doesn’t really fit JSF programming model as it displays whole pages in dialogs rather than any custom content, PrimeFaces Mobile Dialog however is based on simpledialog2 widget that enables the model PrimeFaces developers are used to which is displaying-hiding the content after an action. Dialog can also be embedded inside mobile views. Usage is as follows;

<h:form id="listNotesForm">
    <p:dataList id="notesList" value="#{notesView.notes}" var="note" type="inset">
        <p:commandLink value="#{note.shortText}" update=":listNotesForm:noteDetail" oncomplete="dlg.show()">
             <f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{note}" target="#{notesView.note}" />
        </p:commandLink>
    </p:dataList>

    <p:dialog header="Note Details" widgetVar="dlg">
        <f:attribute name="contentSwatch" value="e" />
        <p:outputPanel layout="block" style="padding:4px 10px">
           <h:outputText id="noteDetail" value="#{notesView.note.text}" />
        </p:outputPanel>
    </p:dialog>
</h:form>

PrimeFaces Mobile is under active development, although the next release will focus on performance optimizations and tuning (e.g. lightweight resources, lazy view loading), there are also nice features like this one.

There is also a nice promotion video;

Future plans are PrimeFaces Push – Atmosphere integration for real-time live comments.

We listen to our community and thanks to the valuable feedback we are glad to announce that community members now also have the option to receive the binaries-sources of maintenance releases in an affordable way without being a PrimeFaces PRO user. Annual subscription to maintenance releases will also be offered so that by subscribing one year, you’ll have access to all maintenance versions released for a year. This model would be known as PrimeFaces Elite. The binaries-sources will be available to be purchased online at PrimeFaces.org and the fee per developer seat would be only 199$ per year.

Please note that, fixes of private maintenance branches will also be committed to public trunk so you always have the option to merge the changes from trunk back to your self-maintained local branch without paying a fee. The fee mentioned above is to avoid doing this and receive a certified-official PrimeFaces release from PrimeFaces Team.

Thanks to everyone who assisted us optimizing the policy! With your help, we’ll make PrimeFaces even greater!

Until now, we have been doing maintenance(bugfix only) releases such as 3.3.1, 3.4.1, 3.4.2 periodically followed by a major release e.g. 3.4, 3.5. From now on, tags/sources of these certified-official releases will be available to PrimeFaces PRO users exclusively. Although there will be a private branch, each improvement-fix made into maintenance branches will also be committed to public repository targeting trunk which is the next major release. As code is open, community members can access the fixes at trunk and maintain their own branches locally if necessary. PrimeFaces PRO users on the other hand will receive certified maintenance releases in binary and source format.

For example, 3.5 is out and we’ll create a private branch for 3.5.1. New features will go in public trunk only (3.6-SNAPSHOT), bug fixes on the other hand will be committed to private 3.5.1 branch and the public trunk so everyone has access to the fixes. PrimeFaces PRO users will receive certified maintenance releases periodically and Community users need to maintain their own maintenance branches or keep using the development builds of trunk although latter has the risk of instability.

So by becoming a PrimeFaces PRO user, you don’t need to maintain maintenance branches yourself, dig the trunk code to find the fixes to merge and avoid the risk of using a development build of trunk in production.

We are fully committed to open source, PrimeFaces is licensed under apache license since it was born 4 years ago and all subprojects of PrimeFaces are also open source. This maintenance policy does not hide a single line of code from public access since any feature, enhanement and bug fix is also available in public repository.

We are sure that PrimeFaces community will support this policy because more PRO users mean improved financial backing for PrimeFaces resulting in more investment regarding team size, more features, less bugs, better quality and all of these under Open Source Philosophy which we truly believe in!

Update: Thanks to the great feedback from the community, there is now an affordable way to get binaries-sources of maintenance releases without becoming a PrimeFaces PRO user.

As in 3.4 Guide, there are two versions, free one and the 10$ copy with same content for community members who would like to contribute PrimeFaces Development. The only difference is the table of contents index for PDF readers.

All versions of guides, api-vdl docs, wiki, PrimeFaces Cookbook, interviews, presentations… Everything is available at PrimeFaces Documentation Center.

Hope you enjoy the new guide!

Downloads

Sources and Binaries along with maven download instructions are available at downloads page.

User’s Guide

See official announcement regarding User’s Guide 3.5.

Showcase Change

From now on there will be only one online showcase instead of showcase and showcase-labs.

Roadmap

Next planned version is 3.6 and it is due second quarter of 2013. Our focus is now on PrimeFaces Mobile and PrimeUI.

Enjoy!