Feb 08

PrimeFaces Integrations

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Optimus Prime

Lately two projects announced PrimeFaces Integration;

SpringFuse

SpringFuse team has recently added PrimeFaces support to their great tool, screenshots look great and will even look greater with the 3.0′s new form controls.

http://blog.springfuse.com/2011/02/springfuse-generates-primefaces-with.html

MetaWidget – Activiti

http://kennardconsulting.blogspot.com/2011/02/metawidget-primefaces-tabview-support.html

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Feb 07

ScrollPanel, First New Component of 3.0

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Optimus Prime

PrimeFaces 3.0 development has started fast and furious, I’d like to introduce our first new component, ScrollPanel. It is used to display overflowed content with theme aware cross browser scrollbars instead of browser dependent scrollbars. Button scrolling, custom effects and client side api are notable features. This component is built on top of wijmo superPanel with PrimeFaces extensions. Check out the online demo to see scrollPanel in action at our new labs showcase.

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Feb 06

PrimeFaces 2.2 is Released

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Optimus Prime

Prime Technology is glad to announce that PrimeFaces 2.2 final is released. 2.2 version has 78 improvements over 2.2.RC2 and 368 improvements in total over 2.1. Highlights of this release are;

  • 75+ filed improvements in issue tracker.
  • General maintenance, various bug fixes and improved quality.
  • Reimplementation of menu, menubar, menuButton and contextMenu.
  • Introduction of new form controls, beginning with inputText and inputTextarea components.
  • Reduced footprint, PrimeFaces is now 1.6mb, still one jar, no required dependencies and configuration.
  • Enhanced theme integration, each theme is now available as a versioned jar file.
  • Initial portlet support.

You can find more information at detailed changelog and the instructions to download the new release at downloads section.

User’s Guide

User’s Guide 2.2 is also now available as the complete reference of PrimeFaces. It is entirely reviewed, updated and improved. First 18 pages of the guide is available as a free download and price of the guide is 9.90 Euros. It is time for PrimeFaces Community to step up and support us. You can find more information about the guide and the process to purchase/download at documentation section.

Migration

We put extra care for backward compatibility, we suggest checking your new menus after upgrade and migrate to updated themes.

3.0

Next milestone would be 3.0, project plan is completed and target release date of an RC is 11th of April, the day we’ll go to Vienna for the Con-Fess conference where we’ll introduce it. 3.0 will be the next generation PrimeFaces featuring  new PrimeFaces Mobile, PrimeFaces Push, implementation of many most voted features, enhancements to various components (tree, treetable, fileupload), form controls part II (dropdowns, checkboxes, radios) and more surprises. If you haven’t already seen it, teaser video of 3.0 is revealed.

Always Bet on PrimeFaces!

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Feb 02

PrimeFaces on Liferay

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Optimus Prime

To help PrimeFaces users who are looking for a kickstart sample to run a JSF 2.0 – PrimeFaces portlet on liferay, I’ve created a portlet under PrimeFaces examples;

Code is available at;

http://code.google.com/p/primefaces/source/browse/#svn%2Fexamples%2Ftrunk%2Fprime-portlet

It’s a small gamble game with ajax functionality, bridge implementation used is one from portletfaces, actually PrimeFaces 2.2.RC2 fails to do ajax in a portlet environment, thanks to a user contribution, it runs fine now.

There is one outstanding issue though, in some requests resources doesn’t seem to be loaded properly, doing a postback fixes that, I think it is an issue with the bridge. I’ve dropped a comment at portletfaces forum, hoping Neil to reply.

Update: Neil Griffin, project lead of portletfaces and JSF lead of Liferay, whom I met in person as well(great guy), contacted me via email regarding resource issue, he’ll look into this soon and we’ll share the results.

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Jan 23

PrimeFaces Form Controls

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Optimus Prime

One of the new features of PrimeFaces is the extended versions of the standard form controls, we’ve planned to introduce these in two versions. inputText and inputTextarea are introduced in 2.2 final, dropdowns, radios and checkboxes will be in 3.0. PrimeFaces form controls extend their standard counterparts most notably with theme integration, following screenshot shows these with two of our themes.

New InputTextarea component also has autoResize feature, when you type the field and exceed the allocated space, instead of displaying scrollbars, textarea will grow with animation. In addition to inputText and textarea, we’ve also styled all PrimeFaces components that render an input text, these include autocomplete, keyboard, spinner, password, inputmask and popup calendar.

Using a styled input control has two main advantages, first your app will look same across browsers and different operating systems and second it will look awesome :)

Demos

PrimeFaces 3.0 Controls

In 3.0 we’ll introduce our styled version of selectOneMenu, selectManyCheckbox and selectOneRadio. Following is the screenshot of initial prototyping.

Always bet on PrimeFaces!

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