With the release of JavaEE 7 many developers have struggled with the question: "What are the new features that JavaEE 7 brings to web development?" In this post series, we'll be dealing with the server-side web development component of JavaEE 7, namely JSF 2.2.
I've been a JSF developer since its initial version, 1.0, back in 2004. Since we're currently in 2014 this makes me kind of a JSF dinosaur, with nearly 10 years of experience. But I'm not sad about being old - in fact for JSF all these years have been very kind, and we can certainly assert that in its current version (2.2) JSF is one of the most compelling server-side web development frameworks available. Let's try to list some of its strong points:
- Strong community
- Big developer base
- JSR-backed specification
- Multiple component vendors
- Strong IDE and tools support (IntelliJ IDEA included)
- Active development
- HTML5 support
- Built-in & Natural templating
- Stateful flow development
- Part of JavaEE
Some of the above points may be subjective, but in the next few posts I hope to have presented some of the most relevant changes and new features brought by JSF 2.2 to developers; and also hope to have motivated you enough to consider migrating or upgrading to this new version.
- New namespaces
- HTML5 support with passthrough attributes
- HTML Natural templating
- FileUpload
- java.util.Collection support on DataModels
- Configurable Resources
- FacesFlow
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