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

Tutorial Chapter 1 – Step By Step

Getting started with Hibernate can be tricky, but here’s a step-by-step tutorial that explains exactly what needs to be done to enable your application for hibernate. This chapter covers very basic mapping and persistence.

Download the following archives: (or use this Maven POM)

• Hibernate Core (3.3.0_CR1)
• Hibernate Annotations (3.4.0_CR1)
• HSQLDB (1.8.0.10), a lightweight in-memory RDBMS (or use the database of your choice)

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It didn’t make it…

Well folks, for those of you who were hoping JSF 2.0 would contain the URL rewriting tools that many had asked for, unfortunately it looks like it’s not going to make it into the official spec. Bookmarking a page, or pages in JSF has been a heavily requested feature, but according to this discussion, is currently out of scope.

But that’s ok…

The PrettyFaces JSF Bookmark extension has been updated for JSF 2.0, and is ready for public preview (download below).

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The Problem:

So you need a way to instantiate the 2.0 FacesContext in a Filter, but when you use the same method that you have in the past, you get NullPointerExceptions all over the place when attempting to access any values through El. The ScopedAttributeElResolver bombs when attempting to set values or access methods in backing beans.) It’s not too hard to get this working again.
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