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Introducing Project Dynamic Faces

After a few months of steady improvements, we're ready to announce an early access release of Project Dynamic Faces (DynaFaces). The project homepage is <https://jsf-extensions.dev.java.net/>. This page has live demos of DynaFaces in action.

This project is being developed in Open Source, using the OSI approved CDDL license. Your contributions and bug reports are very welcome!

Please visit the Slides and Screencasts page for an introductory presentation, and a screencast of that presentation, including demos.

Comments

• Nice demos. I tried an example, and edited the "customer name", with accents, but after the change was saved, the chars with accent were not recognized.

  Posted by: claudio on August 30, 2006 at 03:20 PM

• Same for me - tried inputting name in Hebrew (35) and it all came out garbled. Nice animations though.

  Posted by: kirillcool on August 30, 2006 at 04:15 PM

• Yes, I think this is the issue, issue 9.

  Posted by: edburns on August 30, 2006 at 05:38 PM

• Hi Ed,
  I read the articles and apresentatios that you made about Dynafaces but I don't understand how this project is doing the AJAX and JSF integration!
  I suppose that Dynafaces are creating another lifecycle to AJAX' s request..am I right?
  If I am, why should I use Dynafaces' idea instead of the use a diferent Servlet without any lifecycle (like the second idea shows in https://bpcatalog.dev.java.net/nonav/ajax/jsf-ajax/ )
  thanks a lot

  Posted by: dmarafon on November 08, 2006 at 01:44 PM

• Hi Ed, I read the articles and apresentatios that you made about
  Dynafaces but I don't understand how this project is doing the AJAX and
  JSF integration! I suppose that Dynafaces are creating another lifecycle
  to AJAX' s request..am I right? If I am, why should I use Dynafaces'
  idea instead of the use a diferent Servlet without any lifecycle (like
  the second idea shows in
  https://bpcatalog.dev.java.net/nonav/ajax/jsf-ajax/ ) thanks a lot

  Hello dmarafon,

  Thanks for your question. Here are a few reasons why using a
  separate servlet is a less-than-optimal solution for using JSF +
  Ajax.

  Endpoint explosion. Why bother writing a separte
  servlet, with attendent mapping and configuration issues, when
  the existing FacesServlet mapping is quite sufficient. When
  doing this, you can use a PhaseListener instead
  of a Servlet Filter and have the same effect.

  Access to the JSF View from which the Ajax page was
  generated. Without having access to the view, you
  cannot act on it.

  Access to EL expressions, JSF Managed Beans, Etc.
  Using a separate Servlet makes it much more difficult to do
  these things.

  Sold yet?

  Posted by: edburns on December 04, 2006 at 09:46 AM

• Hello,

  I have used Dynamic Faces (RC4) with JSP with success. But when I tried to use it with Facelets (facelets-1.1.13), I'm running into issues.
  At first, in block, '.jsf' was get appended e.g. prototype.js.jsf. On removing 'servlet-mapping' to *.jsf in web.xml the issue got resolved, but it is still not working.

  Can you please guide where the error could be ?

  Please share the URLs of online articles where integration of Dynamic Faces & Facelets is described.

  Thank You.

  Posted by: user_1 on December 05, 2007 at 02:54 PM

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