All of these plans are a work in progress.

This page is part of a larger series of pages discussing RichFaces 4.0 Release Center

This is one of the critical areas for the 4.0 release.  Many of the changes that are required in this area may cause backwards compatibility issues, and so the major release of 4.0 is a great time to review these.

Priority Issues

• Bandwidth requirements of generated markup
• Size and # of required resources
• JavaScript
• CSS
• General performance improvements

For all of these a critical aspect is the creation of reliable and repeatable benchmarks so that developers can see and improvements or regressions based on changes made.

Bandwidth of Generated Markup

There are many forum posts and issues related to this.

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1. Simplified HTML markup. Avoid tables where is it possible.
   
2. Avoid rendering of default attributes values.
3. Use short JavaScript function names ( generate one proxy call per form for ajax ), do not render default values.
4. Yahoo prrformance optimization

Size & # of Required Resources

This can really be broken down further into JavaScript librarys, and duplicate CSS entries.

JavaScript

Currently there are 3 JavaScript libraries in use.  These need to consolidated and standardized.

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CSS

Duplicate or unneeded CSS entries.

No need to internal CSS values - use the cascading part of CSS.

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General Performance

This is a vague requirements that really encapsulates many little changes.

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Benchmarks & Testsuites

In orderto really get a grasp on these issues and maintain quality we need to make sure changes to the source code are regularly tested and benchmarks compared.  This is obviously the job of a testsuite running in Hudson.

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