OpenFaces

• Select Boolean Checkbox – an extended version of the standard <h:selectBooleanCheckbox> component that adds tri-state support, customizing checkbox images, and state-dependent styles.

Enhancements

• Extended validation framework: added the possibility for annotation-based validation with <o:validateAll> tag.
• Added client-side API for the Spinner component: getValue/setValue functions.
• Added client-side API for the InputText and InputTextarea components: getValue/setValue functions.
• Extended client-side API for TabSet and TabbedPane components: added getTabCount and getPageCount functions respectively.
• Extended client-side API for TwoListSelection component: added selectAll and unselectAll functions.
• Added the scrollTime attribute of <o:dayTable> tag, which allows specifying and saving of the DayTable's scroll position.
• Added a possibility to create custom DayTable event editors using the new <o:customEventEditor> tag.
• DayTable's EventEditorDialog component is now based on a Window component instead of PopupLayer.
• Added resource selector to DayTable event editor dialog.
• Added an ability for customizing styles of the components inside of DayTable event editor dialog.
• Added support for standard and custom (onshow/onhide) events to the Window component.
• Added hideByEsc attribute for PopupLayer, Window and Confirmation components, which closes a modal window on pressing the Esc key.
• Added typingAllowed attribute for DateChooser component to enable scenario where a date should only be selectable from drop-down calendar.

Resolved Issues

• Fixed saving of current DayTable's day after form submission and added two-side binding support for the day attribute of <o:dayTable> tag.
• Fixed "searchField" filter field alignment within table cell under standards compliance rendering mode (in all browsers except IE).
• Fixed focus handling for modal windows.
• Fixed a problem with scrolling a DropDownField/SuggestionField located in a draggable PopupLayer.
• Paddings applied to captionStyle/captionClass of Window/FoldingPanel components don't affect caption buttons anymore.
• Fixed ClassCastException when using <o:validateRegex> on an input component with converter.
• Fixed "util.js was loaded twice" error that occurred in some configurations.
• Fixed indefinite growing of browser window when resizing a side panel in BorderLayoutPanel component.
• The width and height CSS properties values in percent aren't recalculated for the BorderLayoutPanel component by the browser window resizing.
• Fixed using the captionStyle attribute of <o:sidePanel> tag in JSP.
• Fixed rolloverStyle and splitterRolloverStyle attributes functionality in <o:sidePanel> tag.

Created a New Compatibility Demo

A new demo was created that demonstrates compatibility of OpenFaces library with RichFaces library. You can browse the demo online, and download the demo source code.

Extracted Automated Testing Subsystem as a Separate Project

As part of writing automated tests for OpenFaces components, we've developed a subsystem that simplifies writing automated tests for OpenFaces components and HTML-based applications in general. We figured out that this code may be useful not only for this project, but for other JSF- and other web development projects alike. So we've decided to extract this code into a separate project – Selenium Inspector. There's also an add-on for Selenium Inspector that focuses on testing OpenFaces components which might be helpful if you're writing automated tests for OpenFaces-based applications. This add-on is already included into the standard distribution of Selenium Inspector and it can be downloaded here.

API Changes