JavaServer Faces Examples Release Notes

From time to time, I update the examples based on reader feedback about bugs. It's my intention to only update the examples when they do not follow the specifications, as opposed to add work-arounds for specification-compliance bugs in various JSF implementations or web containers, with the possible exception for bugs in the JSF RI. For JSF implementation and container bugs, I instead inform the vendor about the problem, in the hope that these examples will have a positive impact on spec-compliance over time.

Note! The example JAR filenames include the version, i.e., "1_0_2" for the 1.0.2 version. You must remove the old JAR files when you install the new ones, and restart the web container.

Changes in 1.0.2 compared to the 1.0.1 version

• The BarRenderer didn't respect the rule that when the rows property is set to zero, all rows must be rendered. This is fixed in 1.0.2.
• Fixed a bug in the XMLViewHandler where it didn't suppress template text as it should, and included the root cause when throwing exceptions during template file parsing/rendering.

Changes in 1.0.1 compared to the 1.0 version

• The custom ViewHandler examples failed when using Internet Explorer (at least with IE 5 and 6) due to a bug in the JSF RI implementation of the RenderKit createResponseWriter() method, which doesn't accept "*/*" or "text/*" as valid replacements for "text/html" in the content type list (which corresponds to the Accept request header). I've added a work-around for this bug in the com.mycompany.jsf.pl.ClassViewHandler class and reported the bug to the JSF RI team.