ADF Faces and JSF 1.2

JSF 1.2 is right around the corner, and, of course, ADF Faces is going to be right there too, right? Well, not so fast...

ADF Faces took one fairly unusual approach in designing its components. Instead of extending the standard UIComponentBase class like almost everyone else does, we directly extended UIComponent with UIXComponentBase. I chose this path for good reasons - like the FacesBean state saving approach I blogged about a few posts down - but it does carry a penalty. When UIComponent changes, ADF Faces breaks. And UIComponent does change in JSF 1.2. In particular, the move from the JSF EL to the new Unified EL means new getValueExpression() and setValueExpression() methods.

C'est la vie.

So, here's the good news: I'm promising, right here and now, to get a version of ADF Faces out soon that will be based on JSF 1.2. There's one big question to resolve: should it be based on the code in JDev 10.1.3, or on the post-10.1.3 code we're donating to MyFaces? I'm leaning towards the latter, but let me know if you feel differently.