Mojarra 2.0.0 is available!

Monday Oct 19, 2009

Mojarra 2.0.0 is now available!

There are several ways to obtain the release. 

• GlassFish V3 promoted build 69 (out later this week)
• Download directly from https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net
• Download using Maven2 using information provided here

Please review the release notes as there are important details there pertaining to differences between the implementation and the specification as well as a basic migration guide from 1.2 to 2.0 (note that this is a live document, so we'll be making additions - check back regularly).

The JSF 2.0 tutorial from our Sun documentation team should be available in the coming weeks.  As soon as it is, we'll send out a notification.  Until then, here are some nice resources for JSF 2.0:

• Andy Schwartz' blog entry - What's New in JSF 2
• Ed Burns' blog - http://www.java.net/blogs/edburns/
• Jim Driscoll's blog - http://www.java.net/blogs/driscoll
• JSF 2.0 EG blog - http://blogs.jsfcentral.com/jsf2group/

On the tools+JSF 2.0 front, NetBeans is well underway with the JSF 2.0 support.  I'd recommend grabbing the NetBeans development build and try it out!  Ed noted the other day that you could highlight a section of markup in a Facelet template and extract it into a composite component.  Slick!  The JetBrains guys have been busy as well.  Check out their blog on JSF 2.0 support within Maia.

I'd like to personally thank all of our external contributors who have been committing code to the repository directly or submitting patches to help improve our quality (these are in no particular order - my apologies if I've missed anyone):

• Guy Veraghtert
• Imre Oßwald
• Ted Goddard
  
• Mark Collette
  
• Dan Allen
  
• Alexandr Smirnov
  
• Martin Marinschek
• Michael Kurz
• Andy Schwartz
  

I'd also like to thank our top three issue reporters for taking the time to log issues (again, in no particular order)

• Frank Hofmann
• Guy Veraghtert
• Juergen Zimmerman

Also, thanks to Ed Burns, Roger Kitain, Jim Driscoll, and Doug Donahue for putting up with me for the past two years while we worked on this project :)

Finally, if you'd like to discuss JSF 2.0 with other users, I'd recommend the following:

• GlassFish Webtier Forums
  
• ##jsf IRC channel on freenode.net

The GlassFish Webtier forums are monitored by the Mojarra developers.   The IRC channel, also, is frequented by the Mojarra developers, as well as folks from Exadel, MyFaces, and consumers of JSF as a technology.  It's a great way to interact with the community.

I'm excited that we've reached this stage and am looking forward to hearing/reading about people's experiences with JSF 2.0!

Mojarra 1.2_11 and 2.0.0 Public Review (PR) are now available for download

Friday Dec 19, 2008

Just a quick heads up that the Project Mojarra team has pushed two releases to the project site today.

• Mojarra 1.2_11
• Mojarra 2.0.0 PR

1.2_11 is a minor bug fix release.  2.0.0 PR is our release that is feature complete with respect to the JavaServer Faces 2.0 PR specification. 

Both releases should be available on the update center for GlassFish V3 Prelude by the end of the day.  For those running JSF on GlassFish V2, please review the release notes for upgrade instructions.

As usual, if you have feed back on potential implementation features or think you've found a bug, please log an issue on our tracker.

Feedback for the 2.0 PR specification should be mailed to jsr-314-comments@jcp.org.

UPDATE (12/22/2008) We're working out a small snag with the two releases on the UpdateCenter.  For now, I'd recommend the manual upgrade steps detailed in the release notes.  As soon as the UC issues are resolved, I'll post another update to this entry.

UPDATE (12/24/2008) We've ironed out the UC repository issues, so 1.2_11 and 2.0.0 PR are now available on the GlassFish V3 Prelude UpdateCenter (just in time for Christmas too!).

Mojarra 1.2_10 and 2.0.0 available on GlassFish V3 Prelude

Thursday Nov 06, 2008

GlassFish v3 Prelude has been released and can be downloaded here!  Please see the Press Release for more details.

This release of GlassFish includes the latest patch release of Mojarra, 1.2_10.  The 1.2_10 release notes detail the changes added in this version.

It should be noted, that Mojarra 2.0.0 promoted (i.e. non-final) implementation builds of the JSF 2.0 specification are made available via the GlassFish v3 update center (accessible via the admin gui).