Performance

[mmesa]

I’ve been using richfaces 3.1.6 for a while now, and I believe it’s a good choice to develop Web 2.0 applications. What I like the most about richfaces, besides the great variety of components it has, is its strong integration with JSF and the possibility it presents for the developer to abstract from the javascript code generated. I believe this is a very good feature because it allows the construction of complex user interfaces in less time, thus augmenting developers productivity.

However, what concerns me the most about richfaces is its performance. For example, the rich:panelMenu, which is used to define a vertical menu, generates a lot of HTML code, which increases the size of the HTML document. This also increases the download time of the page and diminishes the performance of the application. My point is, it becames necessary to work on the performance issues in the next releases of richfaces. It would be specially nice if richfaces would adopt some of the rules defined by Steve Sounders (http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rules.php).

Finally, it would be useful if there were a way to integrate richfaces with JAWR (https://jawr.dev.java.net/).

Thanks in advance.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

We started stabilization and performance directed works right after 3.2.0 release (we had user voting about the directions and this way won).. So many components was optimized during this time. And I could highly recommend you to try 3.3.1 GA in order to check this. Also we designed http://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-13329 dependencies plugin in order to reduce resource dependencies to just needed ones.

Next that should be mentioned is 4.x release which already has in plans semantic layouts, JS dependencies clearing and so on. Partially such works will be done in 3.3.x branch also.(http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4234141#4234141)

Browse among our wiki pages in order to get more info about work done and planned ;) And for sure we appreciate further feedback about RichFaces improvements.

[nbelaevski]

Hi,

Check: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/RF-1941. Note that we already have solution similar to Jawr.