Wouter continues showing how to use Maven and GlassFish, this time he shows how to Combining Hibernate and Facelets with Maven, Netbeans and GlassFish. Also check these earlier posts by Wouter on GlassFish: Building and Deploying GF Apps using Maven and Invoking EJBs in GF from Tomcat.

JSFTemplating is a JSF page and renderer framework which was used to enhance the GlassFish admin console (now present in the current v2 beta builds). GlassFish Champion Jason Lee who's been an active JSFTemplating developer and an active IRC member has just announced support for Facelets templates. Facelets is a technology that allows you to keep using HTML authoring tools while still using the JSF framework (it does not rely on JSP). You are encouraged to look at the online demo and provide your feedback

The latest release of jMaki, v.8.3.1 includes support for Portlets and Facelets. See Patrice'ss blog on the added value of using jMaki widgets when developing Portlet applications. And thanks to contributions from Norberg Truchesess, jMaki now works with Facelets.

Ryan reports that the latest version of Facelets now run with the GlassFish JSF implementations, including JSF 1.1_01, JSF 1.1_02, and the latest JSF 1.2. The version of facelets to use is 1.1.8. BTW, I think facelets should get a logo... :-)

We have published a fair number of TA entries on Facelets and, while researching one of them we bumped into this article that claimed that Facelets didn't work with the JSF 1.1 RI (it does with the JSF 1.2 RI, though). Ryan checked it out and he Confirms the Problem. I expect a resolution pretty soon, and I'll report when that happens.