The goal of that documents is to guide you through the process of migrating an existing RichFaces 3.3.x based project to RichFaces 4.x, and highlights important changes that have been made to the framework and how they may affect your projects and applications.

Table of content:

• Upgrading
  • To consider Before Upgrade
    • JSP Deprecation
    • Usage with Seam (for those who worked with RichFaces bundled with Seam 2)
  • Libraries upgrade
  • Application descriptors updates
  • Components Namespaces updates
• Framework changes
  • Framework level dependencies
  • Ajax
  • Skinning
  • Resources
  • Ajax Queue
  • Base framework classes and api's
• Common components changes
  • Core components standartized attributes
  • Rich components standartized attributes
  • Client side API usage
• Components migration
  • a4j: components
  • rich validation components
  • rich Input components
  • rich panels/output components
  • rich Menu components
  • rich Ordering components
  • rich Iteration components
  • rich Tree components
  • rich Drag'n'Drop components
  • rich Miscellaneous components
• Components not yet migrated
  • rich Input component
    • colorPicker
  • rich Iteration components
    • columns
    • dataFilterSlider
  • rich Drag'n'Drop components
    • dndParam
  • rich Miscellaneous components
    • gmap
    • insert
  • layout
• Deprecated/Removed components
  • rich panels/output components
    • paint2d
    • seperator
    • spacer
  • rich Iteration components
    • subTable (replaced by collapsibleSubTable)
  • rich Miscellaneous components
    • state api
    • virtualEarth