This week's guest is Neil Griffin, Liferay's resident JSF Wizard, Lead Engineer for Liferay Faces and representative for Liferay on the Portlet-Spec 3.0 group (JSR 362).

Here are our topics:

• Liferay Faces started with portletfaces.org, a cooperative work by Triton and Mimacom. Neil started at Triton, then came to Liferay and Triton and Mimacom donated the code.
• Liferay Faces (LF) consists of LF Bridge, LF Alloy, LF Portal, LF Util.
• You can find a lot of Demos for integration with different components, LF Alloy, Icefaces, Primefaces, RichFaces, InterPortletCommunication. (find Demos)
• The history and problems with earlier JSF versions (esp. Version 1) in Portlets: JSR-329 standardized a standard portlet bridge, those were typically built independently of the portals.
• With JSF 2.0 the integration into portlets got easier and the problems vanished.
• We have 20 Legends now - thanks for all the forum participation
• How does a portlet bridge work and why do values end up in the session even though we've declared them to be request-scoped? E.g. what phases from the JSF lifecycle are bridged to what phases in Portlets?
• With JSF 2.2 one can finally go stateless, previous versions have been strictly stateful.
• AlloyUI 2.0 and its integration into Liferay Faces Alloy, a JSF implementation that utilizes AlloyUI and YUI components.
• Liferay Faces 4.1/4.2 is targetting Java EE 7 (e.g. JSF 2.2) and 4.2 is planned to be released with Liferay 6.2.
• Liferay Faces is distributed through Maven Central, thus it's ready for use and the release is technically independent of Liferay.
• Liferay IDE already integrates JSF in the "New Portlet" Wizard, and it will become a lot better in the next versions
• Neil's JSR involvement (JSR 314, JSF 2.0, JSR 344, JSR 2.2, JSR 362 Portlet 3.0)
• Due to the involvement in the new portlet standard: What's the Portlet 3.0 committee working on?
• CDI Context & Dependency Injection, Conversation Scope, liferay-cdi-portlet-bridge.jar, Implementations: JBoss Weld, Open WebBeans, Resin Candi
• Shoutout to the various cooperators, e.g. from RedHat: Ken Finnegan, Stan Silvert, Pete Muir & Jozef Hartinger, from Oracle: Ed Burns, Mike Freedman, Roger Kitain, Manfred Riem, many Liferay Engineers
• Neil will be at DevCon in Berlin and at other upcoming symposium(s?)