PrettyFaces 3.2.0 is Released – URL Rewriting for Servlet, Java EE, and JSF

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.

Major Changes

• PrettyFaces is now licensed under the Apache Software License v2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html)
• Added ‘parentId’ for Hierarchical Mappings in pretty-config.xml (#72)
• Can now be run in a pure servlet environment (without JSF and related JARs)

Features & Enhancements:

• Added ‘onPostback’ configuration parameter for query parameters (#24)
• Added code-completion support for Eclipse Helios
• Added ‘pretty:location’ client behavior
• Added ‘onPostback’ configuration parameter for path parameters (#24)
• New method PrettyContext.sendError() to send custom HTTP status codes (#66)
• Added SPI hooks for ConfigurationProvider and ConfigurationPostProcessor
• New @URLMappings annotation to declare multiple mappings on a single class

Regression impact:

• Changed some method signatures in PrettyContext
• PrettyFilter no longer wraps application exceptions in ServletException
• PrettyException no longer extends javax.faces.FacesException
• Began deprecation of <view-id>/view.jsp</view-id> in favor of <view-id value=”/view.jsp” />
• com.ocpsoft.pretty.faces.el.BeanNameResolver SPI has moved to com.ocpsoft.pretty.faces.spi.ELBeanNameResolver
• URL-mapping order is now properly respected in pretty-config.xml (and other config sources.)
• Began deprecation of PrettyURLBuilder methods without the new ‘encodeUrl’ argument.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed compatibility with Java 1.5
• Fixed handling of non-ASCII characters in URLs
• Fixed EL method invocation in JSF 1.1 branch.
• Removed HttpSession accesses that could potentially create an unwanted user session. (#62)
• Prevent downloading of web.xml DTDs during configuration
• Fixed FacesConfigBeanNameResolver regarding space characters in URLs
• PrettyFacesWrappedResponse no longer depends on FacesContext (#78)
• PrettyFaces no longer injects values into EL if the response has been marked complete (#79)
• Added documentation specifying the need to “double-escape” backslashes in custom regexes (#83)
• Fixed annotation scanning if application is run with jetty-maven-plugin