JSF 2.3 at ConFESS 2015

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What's
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Ed Burns
JSF Specification co-lead
Oracle America, Inc.

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My
Plan
for
Your
Time
Investment
UI
trends
What
does
this
mean
for
JSF?
What
about
Java
EE
8?
Preserving
your
investment
in
JSF
JSF
2.3
New
Features
Done
to
Date
Q&A
1
2
3
4
5
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6

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• Mobile
is
now
more
important
than
desktop
• What
kind
of
app?
– Mobile
Web
– NaGve
App
(Android,
iOS,
Windows)
• Lots
of
help
out
there
– twier
bootstrap
and
its
enablers
Mobile
First
Web
Design
E

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DEPARTMENT
OF
STATE

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MEAN
E

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• MongoDB
• ExpressJS
• AngularJS
• Node.js
E

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Trying
out
MEAN?
JSF

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Wir
sind
für
Sie
da
• Enterprise
• Stable
• Trusted
vendors
with
a
proven
track
record
of
not
abandoning
projects
• Open
Standard
Process
Con8nued
Relevance
of
JSF

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What
Does
All
This
Mean
for
JSF?
• Mobile
– Use
a
mobile
opGmized
JSF
component
library
• State
– Design
for
statelessness
• JavaScript
– SGll
held
at
arm’s
length
– A
component
level
concern
E

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What
Does
All
This
Mean
for
JSF?
What
about
the
MVC
JSR?
UI
Component
Oriented
MVC
M

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What
Does
All
This
Mean
for
JSF?
What
about
the
MVC
JSR?
Ac8on
Oriented
MVC
M

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What
About
the
MVC
JSR?
• Facelets
• Scopes
– Flow
– Flash
– View
Scope
Alignment
between
JSF
and
MVC
M

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• 1.0
– Managed
Beans
– EL
– Component
Model
• 2.0
– Ajax
– Facelets
– Composite
Components
• 2.2
– HTML5
Friendly
Markup
– Resource
Library
Contracts
– Faces
Flows
– File
Upload
• 2.3
(Planned)
– Beer
CDI
IntegraGon
– MVC
capability
– <f:socket>
WebSocket
JSF
Greatest
Hits
Over
the
Years

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WebSocket
and
JSF
DEMO

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• Tie
up
the
loose
ends
– SpecificaGon
clarificaGons
– CDI
alignment
• Ease
of
use
e.g.
@Inject
FacesContext
• @Inject
into
Validators,
Converters,
etc.
– HtmlInputHidden
is
ClientBehaviorHolder
• Small
scale
new
features
• Subject
to
Spec
Lead
oversight
– JSON
ajax
component
rendering
– Stateless
enhancements
– GET
enhancements
– Adopt-­‐a-­‐JSR
support
JSF
2.3
in
Java
EE
8
Two
feature
drivers,
each
with
their
own
agenda
M

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JSF
2.3
Small
Scale
New
Features
• End
of
the
line
for
non-­‐CDI
managed
beans
– Redefine
meaning
of
@javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean
to
be
CDI
bean
– Redefine
corresponding
XML
syntax
to
be
CDI
bean
• Ajax
method
invocaGon
– A
Faces
request
– Not
specific
to
a
view
– Is
specific
to
a
ClientWindow
– Returns
results
in
JSON
M

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Preserving
Your
Investment
In
JSF
JSF
2.2
New
Feature
Recap

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JSF
2.2
Big
Ticket
Features
• Markup
EvoluGon
– 1090
HTML5
Friendly
Markup
• MulG-­‐tenancy
and
Modularity
– 730
Flows
– 1142
Resource
Library
Contracts

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• Just
Passing
Through
HTML5
Friendly
Markup
Bullet
Through
Jack,
1964
©
Dr
Harold
Edgerton

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1090
HTML5
Friendly
Markup
• This
is
a
JSF
page
The
best
part
of
Wicket
comes
to
JSF
<!DOCTYPE html>!
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"!
xmlns:myNS="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf”>!
<form myNS:id="form">!
<input name="textField" type="text"
myNS:value="#{bean.text1}" />!
<input type="submit" myNS:id="submitButton"
value="submit" /> !
<p>submitted text: #{bean.text1}.</p>!
</form>!
</html>!
!

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1090
HTML5
Friendly
Markup
• Before
JSF
2.2
– JSF
tags
hide
complexity
of
underlying
HTML+script+css
+images
– JSF
“Renderer”:
• encode:
markup
to
browser
• decode:
name=value
from
browser
<html>…
<my:colorPicker value=“#{colorBean.color2}” />
<my:calendar value=“#{calendarBean.date1}” />
</html>
• Context:
Missing
feature
in
browser?
Write
a
JSF
component.
Let
the
elegance
of
HTML
shine
through

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1090
HTML5
Friendly
Markup
• With
JSF
2.2
– Pure
HTML+script+css+images
in
the
JSF
page
– JSF
Renderer
handles
decode
from
browser
• Leverage
the
strength
of
the
JSF
lifecycle
• Leverage
the
expressiveness
of
HTML5
<html>…
<input type=“color” jsf:value=“#{colorBean.color2}”/>
<input type=“date”
jsf:value=“#{calendarBean.date1}” />
</html>
• Context:
New
feature
in
browser?
Use
“pass
through
elements”
Let
the
elegance
of
HTML
shine
through

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1142
Resource
Library
Contracts
730
Faces
Flows
• Allow
composing
a
JSF
app
as
a
collecGon
of
modules
– Faces
Flows
modularize
behavior
– Resource
Library
Contracts
modularize
appearance
• Well
defined
contract
for
each
Modularity and Multi-tenant
capability

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Resource
Library
Contracts
Facelets
Review
The Facelets Gazette
Site
Navigation
●Events
●Docs
●Forums
About Contact Site Map
Template File name
_template.html
Insertion points
Resources
css classes, scripts, images

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Resource
Library
Contracts
A
Contract
is
Born
• Declared Templates
• Declared Insertion Points
• Declared Resources
contractA

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Resource
Library
Contracts
Loading
ConvenGons
contractA
• Declared Templates
• Declared Insertion Points
• Declared Resources
contractB
• Declared Templates
• Declared Insertion Points
• Declared Resources
contractC
• Declared Templates
• Declared Insertion Points
• Declared Resources
<web-app-root>/contracts

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Resource
Library
Contracts
Loading
ConvenGons
contractA
• Declared Templates
• Declared Insertion Points
• Declared Resources
contractB
• Declared Templates
• Declared Insertion Points
• Declared Resources
contractC
• Declared Templates
• Declared Insertion Points
• Declared Resources
<web-app-root>/contracts
contractD
• Declared Templates
• Declared Insertion Points
• Declared Resources
contractE
• Declared Templates
• Declared Insertion Points
• Declared Resources
contractF
• Declared Templates
• Declared Insertion Points
• Declared Resources
JAR files in WEB-INF/lib

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Resource
Library
Contracts
Loading
ConfiguraGon
contractA
• Declared Templates
• Declared Insertion Points
• Declared Resources
contractB
• Declared Templates
• Declared Insertion Points
• Declared Resources
contractC
• Declared Templates
• Declared Insertion Points
• Declared Resources
<web-app-root>/contracts
contractD
• Declared Templates
• Declared Insertion Points
• Declared Resources
contractE
• Declared Templates
• Declared Insertion Points
• Declared Resources
contractF
• Declared Templates
• Declared Insertion Points
• Declared Resources
JAR files in WEB-INF/lib
Set of available contracts
Facelet 1
<f:view contracts="contractA">
...
Facelet 3Facelet 2
faces-config.xml

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Flow
NavigaGon
• NavigaGon
is
no
longer
just
between
pages
• NavigaGon
is
now
between
flow
“nodes”
• InformaGon
Hiding
comes
to
JSF.
Welcome
to
1972!
• MulGple
node
types:
– View
– Method
Call
– Switch
– Flow
Call
– Flow
Return

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Flow
DefiniGon
• Name
of
the
flow
• Where
does
the
flow
start?
• Input
values
• OpGonal
iniGalizer
&
finalizer

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JSF
2.3
New
Features
Done
to
Date
• UIRepeat
and
UIData
support
Map
and
Iterable
• New
Event:
PostRenderViewEvent
• @Inject
support
fort
– RequestCookieMap
– View
Map,
Session
Map
– FacesConverter
– FacesBehavior
– FacesValidator
• CDI
#{viewScoped}

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Thank
You!
• Feedback
to
@edburns

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Safe
Harbor
Statement
The
preceding
is
intended
to
outline
our
general
product
direcGon.
It
is
intended
for
informaGon
purposes
only,
and
may
not
be
incorporated
into
any
contract.
It
is
not
a
commitment
to
deliver
any
material,
code,
or
funcGonality,
and
should
not
be
relied
upon
in
making
purchasing
decisions.
The
development,
release,
and
Gming
of
any
features
or
funcGonality
described
for
Oracle’s
products
remains
at
the
sole
discreGon
of
Oracle.

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