We are pleased to announce the latest version of the Rewrite Servlet Toolkit, and PrettyFaces libraries. It’s been quite a while since our last release, but we promise you this new version has been worth the wait.

Release notes:

You might notice we skipped a few version numbers, which we’ve done for several reasons:

• This is a major update, so we incremented from major version 2 to version 3.
• The deprecated (original) prettyfaces-jsf library, which is now several years obsolete was versioned 3.3.3, and has been confusing new users for some time. We are now resolving this issue by skipping directly to Rewrite version 3.4.0.Final.

This release includes several major new features as well as a plethora of bug-fixes, including:

• Support for JDK6 has been dropped, JDK7 is the new minimum requirement
• Improved compatibility with JDK8 for the annotation scanning
• Major performance improvements in the logging subsystem
• Major performance improvements with the URLBuilder
• Fixed some concurrency issues which occurred in high load scenarios
• Many improvements for the LocaleTransposition feature
• Support conditional parameters with JSF’s <f:param>
• Fault tolerant percent decoding for path and query parameters
• Simpler condition trees when binding query parameters using annotations, results in better faster evaluation performance
• Fixes handling of context path for applications deployed to the root context
• Improved error reporting. Exception stack traces now display the rule that errored and the location where that rule was defined (including file and line number)
• Strict RuleBuilder ordering and structure enforcement

Thank you for continuing to support us, provide valuable feedback, and use our technologies.

And of course, please get involved in the project at http://github.com/ocpsoft/rewrite

We are proud to announce the release of Rewrite Servlet Toolkit 2.0.11.Final.

Highlights

This version includes new support for internationalization and localization. Additionally, support for annotation scanning on the WebLogic application server has been improved.

Security Notice

If you are currently using Rewrite 2.0.9.Final and have not yet updated, you should update to Rewrite 2.0.10.Final or 2.0.11.Final as quickly as possible, since we have fixed a minor concurrency issue when using the PhaseOperation configuration element that can potentially cause cross-request information bleeding.

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http://ocpsoft.org/rewrite/

Join Lincoln Baxter of OCPsoft and Kito Mann of Virtua, Inc. as they discuss several emerging projects in Java. The transcript and MP3 can be found at Virtua’s site. This podcast was recorded at JAXConf in San Francisco, 2012.

OCPsoft Founder Lincoln Baxter, III was interviewed by ZeroTurnaround, the makers of JRebel, about his take on developer productivity, and new rapid development tools from JBoss.

Featured technologies in this interview are OCPsoft’s SocialPM, and also Errai (from JBoss,) a GWT-based web-development framework for creating highly distributed and responsive web applications. Read the interview on the ZeroTurnaround website.

Lincoln Baxter, III (OCPsoft Founder) shared his insight on the state of technology today and where future innovation is likely to occur. We have seen many advancements in technology over the last several years, but our lives remain complex and we face many of the same problems that have plagued the industry for decades. What are these problems? How will they be addressed? What can we get excited about? Read the full article on JBoss.org » (Link through DZone.)

PrettyFaces is an OpenSource Filter-based Servlets extension with enhanced support for JavaServer Faces – JSF 1.1, 1.2 and 2.0 – enabling creation of bookmark-able, pretty URLs. PrettyFaces solves the “RESTful URL” problem elegantly, including features such as: page-load actions, seamless integration with faces navigation, dynamic view-id assignment, managed parameter parsing, and configuration-free compatibility with other web frameworks. Thanks goes out to all of the developers who contributed to this release; a lot of work has been done, particularly in the realms of stability, performance, and inter-operability with other frameworks.

We are sorry for any inconvenience that may have been caused by our brief downtime. We have moved to a new server, and are now fully operational once more. Due to the hack, we were forced to re-evaluate the security of our previous host, and decided that we could not be adequately certain that such attacks would not succeed in the future; we’ve subsequently moved to a new host, and are very happy with the provisions (and increased level of service.) Please enjoy the new, faster, more stable OCPsoft.com. Sincerely, ~The OCPsoft Team.

We regret to inform you that the hosting provider we use for OCPsoft.com, and our website itself has recently come under attack. The hack utilized our caching provider to place inappropriate advertising and unrelated content on our website for the promotion of a product. We have removed the source of the problem, but cached files are still being served from DNS caches and proxies. Thank you for your patience as we work to clean up the remaining impacts of this problem, and we apologize for any delay or inconvenience that this has caused. Sincerely, The OCPsoft Team

PrettyFaces is an OpenSource Filter-based Servlets extension with enhanced support for JavaServer Faces – JSF 1.1, 1.2 and 2.0 – enabling creation of bookmark-able, pretty URLs. PrettyFaces solves the “RESTful URL” problem elegantly, including features such as: page-load actions, seamless integration with faces navigation, dynamic view-id assignment, managed parameter parsing, and configuration-free compatibility with other web frameworks.

» Get PrettyFaces!

Features & Enhancements:

• Introducing URL mapping configuration with annotations (tutorial + docs)
• Added path and query-parameter validation wth managed bean methods (#50 + r353)
• Added support for JSF2 redirects using ExternalContext (r305)
• Added support for arrays as query parameters (r278)

Regression impact:

• The URL query string is now included in rewrite-rules; this allows for finer control of the rewriting engine (Any prior rewrite rules should be revised and re-tested)
• PrettyContext.getCurrentURL() has been replaced with PrettyContext.getRequestURL() and PrettyContext.getRequestQueryString()

Bugfixes:

• Resolved Mojarra warning “Request path ‘/faces/url.xhtml’ begins with one or more occurrences of the FacesServlet prefix path mapping ‘/faces’.” when using path mapping (#43 + r379)
• Resolved Deployment warning on Geronimo (#58 + r364)
• URL Path Expressions now match correctly when more than one expression is used between path segments (r362)
• Resolved ClassNotFoundException with JSF 1.2 on JBoss6 (#54 + r360)
• Resolved failed deployment due to ClassNotFoundException on Geronimo (#59 + r369)