[ANNOUNCE] Beta Release availbe for download

Question

I'm very happy to announce that the JavaServer Faces 1.0 Beta Release is available for download at <http://java.sun.com/j2ee/javaserverfaces/download.html>.
Please share your feedback here!
Thanks,
Ed
JSF Staff

Answer 1

I wonder whether the companies about to publish books
on JSF were aware about
these changes, and whether they will be postponing the
release of their books in order
to reflect the changes to the Specification, in case
their work does not reflect the latest specs.
Some of the authors are on the EG, so they will have known about the
changes. Others are not, so they will have been as much in the dark as
you have been until the Beta was released. What was always clear, though,
is that there would be lots of major and minor changes and I'm sure that
we'll be seeing more of the same (but hopefully not so major) before FCS.
Right now the just recently published book from
McGraw-Hill is outdated due to these changes?That could always have been foreseen. There was no secret about the fact
that EA4 was nowhere near the final word.
Wiley and Apress are about to release their books. I
would like to know if the code examples
will reflect the changes in the latest specs.
Book publication dates that you see on Amazon and elsewhere are often based on their authors' best
guesses at the time that they submit a proposal and are sometimes updated as the project
progresses. In the case of JSF, I think you'll find that most of the book dates that you see now are
probably quite fictional (no pun intended). As the author of the APress! book, I can assure you that
its examples will be up to the latest spec and, in fact, to the FCS spec, whenever that happens and
I would expect that to be true of all the books that are not yet published.
Kim Topley