Earlier this week, Jay Balunas announced the release of JBoss RichFaces 4.0.0 Alpha 2. RichFaces is a JSF component library that provides over 100 AJAX aware components for JSF developers. RichFaces allows for easy skinning of components and development of components via its Component Development Kit (CDK).
This new release contains many new components and features, the highlights of which are:
- Redesigned and improved Component Development Kit
- Ajax core components set almost completely migrated.
- Ajax request smart Queuing mechanism implemented
- Rich Data Iteration components created
- Skinning including standard control skinning feature was migrated.
RichFaces 4.0.0 Alpha 2 can be downloaded from the project's download page. The next release (Milestone 1) is expected around the middle of July.
