OmniFaces Showcase

What's new in OmniFaces?

What's new in OmniFaces 4.6.5?

Release date: 8 June, 2025

Fixed in OmniFaces 4.6.5

All fixes are same as in 3.14.11

What's new in OmniFaces 4.6.4?

Release date: 3 June, 2025

Fixed in OmniFaces 4.6.4

All fixes are same as in 3.14.10

What's new in OmniFaces 4.6.3?

Release date: 1 June, 2025

Fixed in OmniFaces 4.6.3

All fixes are same as in 3.14.9

What's new in OmniFaces 4.6.2?

Release date: 26 April, 2025

Changed in OmniFaces 4.6.2

#885 - Faces(Local)#getBundleString() now accepts varargs with MessageFormat params

Fixed in OmniFaces 4.6.2

#891 - PWA's sw.js won't anymore check external resources such as Google Analytics as that would otherwise result in potential CORS errors for nothing
#892 - @Param threw since 4.6 ClassCastException when converter ID was used instead of converter class (worked in 4.5.1 and before)
Remaining fixes are same as in 3.14.8

What's new in OmniFaces 4.6.1?

Release date: 8 February, 2025

Fixed in OmniFaces 4.6.1

#887 - @ViewScoped improved fix of issue 823 of 4.5 release

What's new in OmniFaces 4.6?

Release date: 24 November, 2024

Added in OmniFaces 4.6

c3c841f - Ajax has been split into Ajax and AjaxLocal
#849 - Components has been split into Components and ComponentsLocal
#864 - <o:importConstants>: when importing an enum, you will now be able to use #{EnumClass.members()} instead of #{EnumClass.values()} in case you wish to exclusively access enum members rather than all constant field values

Changed in OmniFaces 4.6

02f87b9 - org.omnifaces.util.Callback (originally designed for Java 1.7!) has been deprecated in favor of the org.omnifaces.util.FunctionalInterfaces wherein the callback interfaces follow the same naming conventions as Java 8 ones
#867 - <o:socket> the close reason GOING_AWAY was previously suppressed in logging, but now it will be logged as FINE

Fixed in OmniFaces 4.6

#862 - Fix ClassNotFoundExceptioncode> during startup when a web.xml entry representing a class contains a XML comment
#790 - FullAjaxExceptionHandler should not auto-register the FacesExceptionFilter when a custom one is already registered
Remaining fixes are same as in 3.14.7

What's new in OmniFaces 4.5.1?

Release date: 2 September, 2024

Fixed in OmniFaces 4.5.1

#831 - Deployment failed in Quarkus due to FullAjaxExceptionHandler change in 4.5

What's new in OmniFaces 4.5?

Release date: 31 August, 2024

Added in OmniFaces 4.5

#798 - Added Components#setAttribute() and Components#disableInput() utility methods
#790 - FacesConfigXml#getExceptionHandlerFactories() helper method has been added to collect all so far declared exception handler factories
#799 - PWAResourceHandler: added new WebAppManifest#getScreenshots() and WebAppManifest#getShortcuts() properties as per changes in w3 spec
#633 - Added tags for all OmniFaces converters and validators; so e.g. omnifaces.SelectItemsConverter is now also available as <o:selectItemsConverter>
#797 - <o:criticalStylesheet> which extends the standard <h:outputStylesheet> with default rendering of <link rel="preload" as="style"> attributes which automatically to rel="stylesheet" during window load event and is automatically moved to very top of the head and is also treated separately from default CSS resources when using CombinedResourceHandler
#822 - <o:link> which extends the standard <h:link> and allows including the request query string parameters of the current URL into the link's target URL
#824 - @Param can now be instructed to set any faces message as a global message via the new attribute @Param(globalMessage=true)

Changed in OmniFaces 4.5

#814 - PWAResourceHandler: WebAppManifest#getOrientation() now returns null as default value instead of ANY
#790 - FullAjaxExceptionHandler will now auto-register the FacesExceptionFilter so there's no need anymore to explicitly register it in web.xml
#821 - GzipResponseFilter has been renamed to CompressedResponseFilter and got additional support for Brotli and Deflate compression algorithms next to Gzip
#663 - Faces#hasSessionTimedOut() has been deprecated because the in 3.13 added Faces#isRequestedSessionExpired() does basically exactly the same

Fixed in OmniFaces 4.5

#823 - @ViewScoped corner case threadsafety bug has been fixed (won't happen in normal production environment with standard web browsers, but only in unit test environment when bean is programmatically accessed by parallel threads)
Remaining fixes are same as in 3.14.6

What's new in OmniFaces 4.4.1?

Release date: 5 May, 2024

Fixed in OmniFaces 4.4.1

#803 - The in 4.4 introduced LruCache, used by @ViewScoped and <o:cache>, threw NPE when server is restarted with session persistence

What's new in OmniFaces 4.4?

Release date: 14 April, 2024

Added in OmniFaces 4.4

#787 - Added Components#createComponent() utility methods to reduce boilerplate when creating components

Changed in OmniFaces 4.4

#792 - The repackaged ConcurrentLinkedHashMap, used by @ViewScoped and <o:cache> has been replaced by simpler LRU map implementation, the org.omnifaces.util.cache.LruCache, which should reduce the amount of unnecessary AtomicReference instances in heap

Fixed in OmniFaces 4.4

Remaining fixes are same as in 3.14.5

What's new in OmniFaces 4.3?

Release date: 23 September, 2023

Added in OmniFaces 4.3

#769 - <o:importConstants> and <o:importFunctions> got a new loader attribute where you can specify an object whose class loader will be used to load the class specified in the type attribute
#769 - New <o:loadBundle> tag which basically extends the <f:loadBundle> with a new loader attribute where you can specify an object whose class loader will be used to load the bundle, and whose Locale will be obtained with better default values than the default Faces implementation
#772 - Added Faces(Local)#isAuthenticated() which checks if the current request has a remote user

Fixed in OmniFaces 4.3

#774 - <o:socket> failed to reconnect when connection is lost since 4.0 and threw Unknown channel: undefined because the JS -> TS migration was not done right in Push.ts
Remaining fixes are same as in 3.14.4

What's new in OmniFaces 4.2?

Release date: 24 June, 2023

Added in OmniFaces 4.2

#736 - PWAResourceHandler can now also be triggered via manifest.webmanifest which will eventually become the default over manifest.json
#740 - Added Components#getRenderedValue() so that you can easily grab the to-be-rendered value of any ValueHolder component, particularly taking into account the internal state of any UIInput component, without the need to do all the checks if there's a submitted value or a local value or a converter etc
#748 - Added Components#invalidateInputs() and Components#invalidateInput() so that you can explicitly invalidate specific UIInput components by a relative client ID, e.g. when a specific DB constraint violation exception was thrown during a bean action
#761 - Added MessagesLocal so that you can reuse any existing FacesContext instance without the need to get it from the ThreadLocal again and again

Changed in OmniFaces 4.2

#745 - Utils#encodeURI(), which is internally used by among others #{of:encodeURI()}, FacesViews, and FileServlet, now uses RFC 3986 instead of RFC 2396
Remaining changes are same as in 3.14.3

Fixed in OmniFaces 4.2

#755 - <o:highlight> accidentally stopped working since 4.0 because it was overlooked in OmniFaces.ts during the JS -> TS migration
Remaining fixes are same as in 3.14.3

What's new in OmniFaces 4.1?

Release date: 26 February, 2023

Added in OmniFaces 4.1

#730 - <o:inputHidden> has now a new readonly attribute, this will basically set the model value as submitted value during the decode and then run all the validators, but it won't update the model, this is very useful when you'd like to block the form submit by a validation error based on a server-controlled model value

Fixed in OmniFaces 4.1

#707 - sw.js requests unnecessarily triggered creation, building and rendering of a second UIViewRoot of the associated view, including any view scoped beans
#728 - CombinedResourceHandler failed to resolve resources when jakarta.faces.AUTOMATIC_EXTENSIONLESS_MAPPING was enabled
#729 - @ViewScoped unload unnecessarily threw an exception in MyFaces 4.x due to impl changes in their side
Remaining fixes are same as in 3.14.2

What's new in OmniFaces 4.0.1?

Release date: 21 November, 2022

Fixed in OmniFaces 4.0.1

#715 - #{now} and #{startup} weren't compatible with of:xxx() date functions
Remaining fixes are same as in 3.14.1

What's new in OmniFaces 4.0?

Release date: 2 October, 2022

Major in OmniFaces 4.0

Minimum dependencies are changed from Java 1.8, JSF 2.3, EL 3.0, Servlet 3.1, CDI 2.0, WS 1.1 and BV 2.0 to Java 11, Faces 3.0, EL 4.0, Servlet 5.0, CDI 3.0, WS 2.0 and BV 3.0; as of now, OmniFaces 4.0 is NOT backwards compatible with previous versions of these dependencies because of the compiler-incompatible rename of the javax.* package to jakarta.* package.
All things which were during 3.x @Deprecated have been physically removed, such as <o:form includeViewParams="true"> (has become the default behavior), WebXml.INSTANCE and FacesConfigXML.INSTANCE (replaced by WebXml.instance() and FacesConfigXml.instance()) and omnifaces:fixviewstate.js (replaced by JSF 2.3 native fix)
#{now} and #{startup} will now return an instance of java.time.temporal.Temporal instead of java.util.Date; it still supports the time property as in #{now.time} and #{startup.time}; additionally, it's got two new convenience properties: instant and zonedDateTime as in #{now.instant}, #{now.zonedDateTime}, #{startup.instant} and #{startup.zonedDateTime}
Callback interfaces which dated from Java 1.7 and have replacements available in Java 1.8 are now @Deprecated. Callback.Void is replaced by Runnable, Callback.Returning is replaced by Supplier, Callback.WithArgument is replaced by Consumer and Callback.ReturningWithArgument is replaced by Function. Utility methods in Components and Events are have been adjusted.

OmniFaces 4.0 is basically the Jakartified version of OmniFaces 3.14 with the following changes:

Added in OmniFaces 4.0

#648 - Components#addFacesScriptResource() which allows the component developer to automatically include either the Faces 4.0-specific faces.js or the JSF 2.3-specific jsf.js depending on whether the former is available as a resource in the current deployment
#655 - Faces#addResponseCookie() got a new overload which allows adding custom attributes to the cookie such as SameSite:None (NOTE: works currently only when using minimally Mojarra 4.0.0-M2 on top of minimally Servlet 6.0.0-M1)

Changed in OmniFaces 4.0

#675 - All <h:outputScript library="omnifaces"> resources such as omnifaces.js were migrated from JavaScript to TypeScript