PrimeFaces-ext project contains two spin-off projects from PrimeFaces Framework; Optimus and FacesTrace.

Optimus

Optimus orchestrates the lightweight JSF-Guice-JPA stack and provides extra features to ease development with JSF.

• Annotation based IOC built on top of Google Guice.
• Lifecycle callbacks like @OnInit, @OnRender.
• AOP support.
• Declarative transaction management.
• Persistence support and JPA integration.
• XML-Less JSF Navigations.
• Security Extensions.

FacesTrace

FacesTrace aims to enhance the traceability of JavaServer Faces based applications. Several trace information and performance metrics are collected and presented on the page being traced.

• JSF LifeCycle visualizer.
• Performance Tracker.
• Scoped Attributes.
• Log4J appender.
• FacesMessage Lister.
• Component Tree visualizer.