1.6 Release, Joinfaces and Jakarta

[t-oster]

Hi,
I have to migrate my project from joinfaces 4 to joinfaces 5 (http://joinfaces.org/), which includes the migration from the javax classes to the jakarta classes.
As I understand joinfaces will make this transition in 1.6.0 (i am getting it to work partly with the 1.6.0 snapshot).
However, since 1.6.0 is not released, joinfaces seemed to decide to remove the bootsfaces support, which makes it harder for me to keep it in my project.

So my question is: Is there a time plan for the 1.6.0 release, which will have jakarta support? Maybe we can get the Joinfaces people then to re-include bootsfaces.

[stephanrauh]

Jakarta support is already there, but not in an official version. The latest snapshot supports the jakarta namespace.

I'm afraid we won't ever manage to publish version 1.6.0. And I'm sure we won't publish a version supporting JSF 4.0. Maybe someone picks up the work. That'd make me happy. But at the moment, I don't see anyone. Adding insult to injury, none of my customers is using JSF these days. JavaScript-based UI frameworks dominate the market. So it's unlikely we'll find volunteer supporting the project.

That's a pity, because I still see 3000-4000 downloads each month.

[t-oster]

Okay, thank you for your quick answer and for the work in general.
Maybe you could add a warning to the bootsfaces main page that it won't be developed further so people don't start depending on it and will be forced to remove it when migrating to spring boot 3.

[geopossachs]

Hello,
unfortunately, a complete conversion of the old framework to the new one is not an easy task.
But I think the other JSF frameworks are also facing this challenge.
And we can see how they solve it.

Here i found Primeface published a second JAR as a JAR for the new framework too
https://primefaces.github.io/primefaces/10_0_0/#/gettingstarted/download?id=jakarta-jsf-30

[geopossachs]

Tickets with the same topic
#1180
#1187

[geopossachs]

I have a question @t-oster

How does the Framework switch work there?
They import primefaces on version 12 there, but the normal jar
https://github.com/joinfaces/joinfaces/blob/5.0.x/joinfaces-dependencies/build.gradle#L30

But there is no branching change in this normal primeface jar - they use Jarkarte 8
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.primefaces/primefaces/12.0.0

or i'm wrong?