After a long and at times intense spec and development process the JSF 2.3 EG is proud to announce that today we've released JSF 2.3

JSF (JavaServer Faces), is a component based MVC framework that's part of Java EE. JSF 2.3 in particular is part of Java EE 8.

Major new features in JSF 2.3 are a tighter integration with CDI, support for WebSockets, a really cool component search expression framework (donated by PrimeFaces), basic support for extensionless URLs, and class level bean validation.

The age old native managed beans of JSF 2.3 have finally been deprecated (although they are still available for now) in favour of CDI. It's expected that these will be fully removed (pruned) in a future release.

The JSF 2.3 EG would like to thank everyone who contributed to JSF in whatever way, by creating bug reports, testing builds, providing comments and insights on the mailinglist and contributing code. Without those community contributions JSF 2.3 would not have been possible! Thanks to all our fantastic community members!

JSF 2.3 (Mojarra 2.3) can be downloaded per direct from the project's download page.

Maven coordinates for the implementation (includes API) are:

<dependency> <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId> <artifactId>javax.faces</artifactId> <version>2.3.0</version> </dependency>

The full implementation can be used for Servlet containers such as Tomcat and Jetty.

Maven coordinates for just the API are:

<dependency> <groupId>javax.faces</groupId> <artifactId>javax.faces-api</artifactId> <version>2.3</version> </dependency>

The API jar can only be used as a compile time dependency.

Application servers Payara and GlassFish can be trivially updated by replacing the JSF 2.2 glassfish/modules/javax.faces.jar with the 2.3 version. It's usually a good idea to clear the OSGI cache after that (e.g. rm -rf [payara/gf gome]/ glassfish/domains/domain1/osgi-cache/felix/)

Arjan Tijms