To build the latest revision of the RichFaces 4.0 documentation, refer to How to build RichFaces 4.0 Documentation.
Purpose
This is the project page for the RichFaces 4.0 documentation project. It is used to track the progress and documentation plans of the project.
Overview of Project
RichFaces is an extensive component library for JavaServer Faces, built on the open-source framework Ajax4jsf. It allows for easy integration of Ajax capabilities into enterprise application development.
RichFaces 4.0 adds support for JSF 2.0, in addition to clarification and streamlining of the components. The documentation will be completely overhauled and rewritten for this new release.
Documentation Process
Content Services Publication Lifecycle
5-Phase Model for developing and maintaining content:
Information Plan -- Creation of the Information Plan and Project Plan deliverables.
Content Specification -- Detailed research with a Content Specification Plan and a revised Project Plan.
- Implementation -- Design and development of deliverable.
- Production -- Translation and final production of deliverables.
- Evaluation -- Evaluating the deliverable and executing the maintenance plan.
SVN Repository
Content is maintained in the JBoss SVN repository:
Content from the previous RichFaces version:
Communication
- Mailing lists: richfaces-exadel@redhat.com, richfaces-planning-issues@lists.jboss.org
- External IRC: #richfaces on irc.freenode.net
Meetings and Training
- General Team Meeting: http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/RichFacesTeamMeetingInformation
- 4.0 Team Meeting: http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/RichFaces400DesignandDevelopmentMeetings
- 4.0 Planning Meeting: http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/richfaces40planning
Docs meetings:
- RichFaces Doc Meeting Agenda 22 October 2009 / RichFaces Doc Meeting Transcript 22 October 2009
- RichFaces Doc Meeting Agenda 5 November 2009 / RichFaces Doc Meeting Transcript 5 November 2009
- RichFaces Doc Meeting Agenda 17 December 2009 / RichFaces Doc Meeting Transcript 17 December 2009
- RichFaces Doc Meeting Agenda 13 January 2010 / RichFaces Doc Meeting Transcript 13 January 2010
Resources Information
Previous Developer Guide in JBoss EAP 5.0 Documentation:
Previous Developer Guide on JBoss.org:
RichFaces Live Demo on Exadel.com:
Demo videos:
- http://docs.jboss.org/tools/movies/demos/building_web_page_using_JSF_RichFaces_Facelets/building_web_page_using_JSF_RichFaces_Facelets.htm
- http://docs.jboss.org/tools/movies/demos/rich_faces_demo/rich_faces_demo.htm
Issues (tasks and bugs) are tracked in JIRA
- RichFaces: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF
- RichFaces Planning: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RFPL
Project home page
- http://www.jboss.org/jbossrichfaces/
- Hosted documents: http://docs.jboss.org/richfaces/
Forums
- User forum: http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewforum&f=261
- Design forum: http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewforum&f=262
Other links