Jakarta Faces 4.0

Jakarta 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.

New features, enhancements or additions

• Issue #1581: New API to programmatically create Facelets
• Issue #1508: New automatic extensionless mapping
• Issue #1509: New annotation @ClientWindowScoped
• Issue #1570: Support custom cookie attributes such as SameSite in ExternalContext#addResponseCookie()
• Issue #1555: New attribute <h:inputFile multiple="…">
• Issue #1556: New attribute <h:inputFile accept="…">
• Issue #1557: New method FacesContext#getLifecycle()
• Issue #1559: New tag <f:selectItemGroups>
• Issue #1560: New attribute <h:inputText type="…">
• Issue #1563: New tag <f:selectItemGroup>
• Issue #1568: New method UIViewRoot#getDoctype()
• Issue #1573: New attribute <f:websocket onerror="…">
• Issue #1574: New layout=“list” for <h:selectManyCheckbox> and <h:selectOneRadio>
• Issue #1582: New annotation literals for all @Qualifiers
• Issue #1558: Make UIComponent#subscribeToEvent() more convenient
• Issue #1565: Skip type attribute from <link> and <script> when doctype is HTML5
• Issue #1567: Improve <f:ajax> behavior in composite components

Removals, deprecations or backwards incompatible changes

• Issue #1552: Rename “JSF” to “Faces” over all place
• Issue #1553: Rename “http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/” URL to “jakarta.faces.” URN
• Issue #1546: Remove all JSP support
• Issue #1547: Remove native Managed Beans (@ManagedBean and related)
• Issue #1548: Remove MethodBinding, ValueBinding and friends
• Issue #1571: Remove CURRENT_COMPONENT constants from UIComponent class
• Issue #1578: Remove deprecated methods of StateManager class
• Issue #1583: Remove entire ResourceResolver class

Minimum Java SE Version

Java SE 11 or higher

Details

• Jakarta Faces 4.0 Release Record
  • Jakarta EE Platform 10 Release Plan
• Jakarta Faces 4.0 Specification Document (PDF)
• Jakarta Faces 4.0 Specification Document (HTML)
• Jakarta Faces 4.0 Javadoc
• Jakarta Faces 4.0 Jsdoc
• Jakarta Faces 4.0 Renderkitdoc
• Jakarta Faces 4.0 VDLDoc
• Jakarta Faces 4.0 TCK(sig,sha,pub)
  • First service release Jakarta Faces 4.0 TCK(sig,sha,pub)
• Maven coordinates
  • jakarta.faces:jakarta.faces-api:jar:4.0.1

Compatible Implementations

• Mojarra 4.0.0

Ballots

Release Review

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2022-05-18 with the following results.

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

Plan Review

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2021-05-04 with the following results.

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

Release Review