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Published Jul. 2, 2025

Liferay Faces: Features

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This article describes some of the helpful features for Java Server Faces, as well as, more specifically, Liferay Faces.

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Java Server Faces Features

Java Server Faces is industry standard for user interfaces and contains some of the following features:
  • Standardized with a Java Specification.
  • Can make development easier using a little Java code instead of a lot of Javascript.
  • Supported by large vendors (Oracle and JBoss).
  • Large community to help,support, and contribute to.

Liferay Faces Features

  • Liferay Faces provides support for the JavaServer™ Faces (JSF) standard within Liferay Portal.
  • The Liferay Faces Alloy sub-project provides a suite of JSF UI components that utilize Alloy UI.
  • The Liferay Faces Bridge sub-project is a portlet bridge for JSF which provides the ability to deploy JSF web applications as portlets within Liferay Portal.
  • The Liferay Faces Portal sub-project provides JSF utilities, EL keywords, and a suite of JSF UI components that are Facelet equivalents of the JSP tag libraries provided by Liferay Portal.
  • Supports CDI and WSRP:
  • Mature platform: Liferay Faces is made for use in production, lots of time spent on QA in the last release.
  • Small amount of bugs/issues. Only around a 100 or so and most are minor.
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