Roadmap and planning for RichFaces 4.1

[jbalunas]

Hi All,

Things are bit crazy around here getting ready for JBoss World, and JUDCon in Boston, so we have not had time to get the roadmap nailed down and posted yet.

The JSF 2.2 spec is planned to be released at the end of this year, but were not going to wait for Mojarra and MyFaces to support it before having a release. 

I think the best approach for pushing RichFaces forward is timeboxed minor releases.  A 6 month box is likely long enough to get cool new features in, and short enough for everyone to know the next release is not too far away.

That said, RichFaces 4.0.0 was released at the very end of March.  This means for our planning ( which will kick off in earnest after JBossWorld on the dev space )  we'll be using an October boundary.

Some items I'd like to see are:

• Bug fixing, and updates
• Move all 4.X development to git
• Seam-forge integration
  • UI projects
  • Customer component projects
• Components
  • rich:editor
  • picklist, ordered list either as a composite component, or a full rich:*
  • rich:push to support CDI events
• HTML5 & mobile support
  • The exacts we'll figure out in May
  • Gesture support
  • input typing
  • Skinning updates
• Theme/layout support
• Component development workshops & solid sandbox process
  • CDK ease of use
  • Examples
  • Seam-forge component dev plugin
  • Better docs
• TBD

All of this is up for discussion, and we'll have to see what we can fit into the schedule.

We'd love to hear feedback and comments for the release from anyone.

-Jay

[ilya_shaikovsky]

Would like to add some popular features which we currently having postponed for available components:

• Flash mode for upload component
• Improve rich:select with the numerous columns (for the guys who migrating from suggestionBox and need selection component and not autocomplete)
• Tables:
  • partial updates improvements (cell updates, row updates, review variants for partial insertion/removal impl)
  • filtering and sorting controls
  • columns visibility
  • column menus(maybe some composition component vs JS API solution)
• I think community will add much more...

Also for the not implemented component need to mention rich:contextMenu which is really wide using across RF 3 based applications also.

Besides we have set of components created by Bernard and awaiting to be ported to RF base.

[iabughosh]

Can you also support rtl direction when changing localization for example from en to ar ?.

[nbelaevski]

My suggestions:

• Page/themes
• Include tag
• Ordering list/list shuttle/pickList

[wish79]

picklist & RTL direction support

[edilmar]

I agree with Ilya. There are many properties that I used in RF3.3.3 that yet doesn't work in RF4.0.0. It will be great to allow support for all of these before to increase the version with new resources.

[feuyeux]

I suggest treat Ordering list/list shuttle/pickList as an urgent requirement, it would be better that adding pagination to these components.

And if possible, please publish these before 4.1.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

also speaking about new and not missed features - good to add set of pluggable effects to the components.

[edilmar]

1) dataScroller renderIfSinglePage="false"

2) calendar readonly=false

3) autocomplete readonly/styleClass

4) fileUpload flash/maxFilesQuantity/immediateUpload/autoclear

[jbalunas]

All good comments guys!!  I want to keep up the discussion, as we'll write up an initial plan in May.

We need to have a balance between bug fixing, migrating older components forward, new components, and new features.

[spiritfox26]

Good news!!!

I need picklist too!!

[ericknet]

I'm very anxious to use the new RichFaces 4.0, but to start to work with i need:

   Ordering list/list shuttle/pickList

[jasondlee]

One thing I'd like to see that has not been listed yet is a charting component.

[spiritfox26]

I would like this components in the future:

- Confirmation Dialogs (with effects )

- Growl messages (as Primfaces component)

- Chart component (Jason Lee)

- Captcha

- Primefaces have DataExporter (for tables, is very cool) and StarRating

Regards

[rngarnaik]

I would like the following new features in the future:

• Charting/Graph component
• Captcha
• DataExporter for any data table (PDF/Excel/csv...)
• Star Rating / %
• Media support ( mp3/mp4/flash/) audio and video.

• Built-in Internationalization (en, de, it...)
• Schedule (Month view, week view, day view, customized view, with rich colour and modal panel integrated).
• Email component support like (popup will come, just write a line and send the email just in one click).

Will come up with more ideas soon......

Regards

Rudra