Blogs

On April 28, 2015 Liferay released Liferay Faces 4.2.0-beta:

Feature Complete

This new version of Liferay Faces is just about 100% feature complete which is why we decided to advance the version from "milestone" to "beta" status.

New Showcase Components

The Liferay Faces Showcase is hosted at www.liferayfaces.org and features a suite of new Java-based JSF components, many of which utilize AlloyUI and can be used in either webapps or portlets. Here is a list of the new components that have been developed since our 4.2.0-m2 release back in September, 2014:

• alloy:audio
• alloy:dataTable
• alloy:progressBar
• alloy:video
• portal:buttonRow
• portal:captcha
• portal:header
• portal:inputSearch
• portal:runtime

For more information about our new Component Suite, see Juan Gonzalez' blog post titled New Liferay Faces release - Portal components and Vernon Singleton's blog post titled New Liferay Faces release - The alloy:accordion component.

Support for PrimeFaces 5.2

Thanks to our technology partnership with PrimeTek Informatics, we were able to resolve several portlet-related compatibility issues with PrimeFaces. In addition, we upgraded the new primefaces5-portlet and primefaces5-users-portlet demos to PrimeFaces 5.2.

Download Instructions

Since the 4.2.0-beta release is not General Availability (GA), the JAR artifacts are *not* published at Maven Central. Instead, they are published at the new Liferay Previews Nexus Repository along with the demo portlets.

Maven Project Dependencies

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.liferay.faces</groupId>
    <artifactId>liferay-faces-alloy</artifactId>
    <version>4.2.0-beta</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.liferay.faces</groupId>
    <artifactId>liferay-faces-bridge-impl</artifactId>
    <version>4.2.0-beta</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.liferay.faces</groupId>
    <artifactId>liferay-faces-portal</artifactId>
    <version>4.2.0-beta</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>
<repositories>
  <repository>
    <id>liferay-previews</id>
    <url>
      https://repository.liferay.com/nexus/content/repositories/liferay-previews
    </url>
  </repository>
</repositories>

Ivy Project Dependencies

<dependencies>
  <dependency org="com.liferay.faces" name="liferay-faces-alloy" rev="4.2.0-beta" />
  <dependency org="com.liferay.faces" name="liferay-faces-bridge-impl" rev="4.2.0-beta" />
  <dependency org="com.liferay.faces" name="liferay-faces-portal" rev="4.2.0-beta" />
</dependencies>
...
<resolvers>
  <ibiblio m2compatible="true" name="liferay-previews"
    root="https://repository.liferay.com/nexus/content/repositories/liferay-previews" />
</resolvers>

Version Scheme

Please refer to the Liferay Faces Version Scheme wiki article for a detailed explanation of the version numbering.

Stability

This 4.2.0-beta release is a technology preview that is suitable for development purposes but should not be used in a production environment. It will not be supported under the Liferay EE subscription until it reaches GA (General Availability) status.

Support For JSF 2.2 and Liferay Portal 6.2

• This release of Liferay Faces is compatible with JSF 2.2

• If deploying portlets to Liferay Portal 6.2, then developers should read the new Migrating From Liferay Faces 3.1 to Liferay Faces 3.2/4.2 section in the Developer's Guide. Specifically, JSF portlets require the following option in the WEB-INF/liferay-portlet.xml descriptor: <requires-namespaced-parameters>false</requires-namespaced-parameters>

Tomcat 7 Only

Roadmap

Feedback Requested

If you find any problems with this release, please post a message in the Liferay Faces forums.