A correction has been made to the post: http://ocpsoft.com/java/acegi-spring-security-jsf-login-page/, fixing an issue where FacesMessages were not being displayed on failed authentications.

PrettyFaces:

Version 1.2.3_GA: binary, source, documentation (stable) Minor Release: 20090415

1. Added optional <action onPostback=”false”> boolean flag to prevent action methods from being called on form postback. Defaults to true;
2. Added optional <query-param decode=”false”> to prevent java.net.URLDecode.decode() from being called on a specific managed query-parameter. Defaults to true;
3. Added unit tests for several critical classes.
4. Minor to moderate refactoring of PrettyFilter/PrettyContext

PrettyFaces:

Version 1.2.3_RC2: binary, source, documentation (stable) Minor Release: 20090331

1. Servlet forwards are working

PrettyFaces:

Version 1.2.3_RC1: binary, source, documentation (stable) Minor Release: 20090319

1. Managed query-params now accept multiple parameters of the same name: E.g.: String[] names — would accept a list of parameters (with the same name) from the request
2. Enhanced configuration loading — PrettyFaces now looks for /META-INF/pretty-config.xml by default, in addition to accepting a comma-separated list of user config-files in the web.xml init param: com.ocpsoft.pretty.CONFIG_FILES — submitted by Aleksei Valikov
3. JSP support for standard attributes on the pretty:link tag has been fixed. The pretty link will now accept style=’mystyle’ and other attributes — from Derek Hollis at OcpSoft

Configuration

Setting up PrettyFaces is simple.

Configuration

Setting up PrettyFaces is simple.

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Java Server Faces is currently full of relatively undocumented features and behavior. As part of the JSF2 release, OcpSoft is working with a few folks at Seam/Redhat to try to address these issues and provide better documentation.

“The community was speaking, but until recently, nobody was listening.”

A lot has changed since May 15, 2001, when the first ballot review of the JSF 1.0 framework was just beginning. To this day, Sun’s flagship web-application framwork has been an uncompromising box of tricks and gotchas, with little community adoption. This has been mostly due to its relatively developer-unfriendly nature; however, the second phase is coming, and with JSF2.0 peeking out from the edge of its nest, a new life is beginning to show.

Maven JSF users can be relieved, PrettyFaces is now in the Maven central repository: To include PrettyFaces in a Maven project, add the following dependency to your POM.

<dependency> <groupId>com.ocpsoft</groupId> <artifactId>ocpsoft-pretty-faces</artifactId> <version>{version}</version> </dependency>

Special thanks to Ryan DeLaplante at http://www.ryandelaplante.com for helping me get this set up! He wrote the initial POM and helped me to get started learning Maven… now I’m hooked.

A new minor release of the PrettyFaces JSF extension for Bookmarkable/Pretty URLs is now available for download. PrettyFaces is now backwards compatible with Java 5. Version 1.2.2: binary, source