Jakarta Faces 4.1

Release for Jakarta EE 11

Jakarta Server Faces defines an MVC framework for building user interfaces for web applications, including UI components, state management, event handing, input validation, page navigation, and support for internationalization and accessibility.

The removes references to the SecurityManager, further aligns with CDI where possible, and provides various small enhancements and clarifications.

New features, enhancements or additions

• Make FacesMessage#VALUES / VALUES_MAP generic
• Require firing events for @Initialized, @BeforeDestroyed, @Destroyed for build-in scopes
• Add missing generics to API that were missed in Faces 4.0
• Support @Inject of current flow like “@Inject Flow currentFlow”
• Add UUIDConverter
• Add ExternalContext.setResponseContentLengthLong
• Add rowStatePreserved property to UIRepeat, exactly the same as UIData
• Spec: jakarta.faces.FACELETS_REFRESH_PERIOD default when ProjectStage is Development
• FacesMessage: implement equals(), hashcode(), toString()

Removals, deprecations or backwards incompatible changes

• Deprecate full state saving (FSS)
• Remove unused PreDestroyCustomScopeEvent and PostConstructCustomScopeEvent
• Remove unused composite:extension
• Remove references to the SecurityManager

Minimum Java SE Version

Java SE 17 or higher

Details

• Jakarta Faces 4.1 Release Record

  • Jakarta EE 11 Platform Release Plan

• Jakarta Faces 4.1 Specification Document (PDF)

• Jakarta Faces 4.1 Specification Document (HTML)

• Jakarta Faces 4.1 Javadoc

• Jakarta Faces 4.1 Jsdoc

• Jakarta Faces 4.1 Renderkitdoc

• Jakarta Faces 4.1 VDLDoc

• Jakarta Faces 4.1 TCK (sig, sha, pub)

• Maven coordinates

  • jakarta.faces:jakarta.faces-api:jar:4.1.1

Compatible Implementations

• Mojarra 4.1.1
  • Eclipse Glassfish 8.0.0-M6 (JDK 21)
  • Eclipse Glassfish 8.0.0-JDK-17-M6 (JDK 17)

Ballots

Release Review

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2024-06-04 with the following results.

Non-binding votes

The ballot was run in the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list

Plan Review

The Specification Committee Ballot completed on 11th July 2023.

The ballot was run in the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list

Release Review

TBD