PrimeFaces 1.x and 2.x contain the same featureset however PrimeFaces 2.x takes advantage of JSF 2.0 APIs like optimized state management, resource loading, system events and more.

Manual Download

JSF Runtime	Binary	Source	Bundle *
JSF 1.2	primefaces-1.1.jar	primefaces-1.1-sources.jar	primefaces-1.1.zip
JSF 2.0	primefaces-2.1.jar	primefaces-2.1-sources.jar	primefaces-2.1.zip

* Bundle contains binaries, sources and api/tag documentation.

Downloading with Maven

PrimeFaces distributions are deployed at the Prime Technology maven repository, to let maven aware of this repository, add the following repository definition to your pom.xml in repositories section.

<repository>
	<id>prime-repo</id>
	<name>Prime Technology Maven Repository</name>
	<url>http://repository.prime.com.tr</url>
	<layout>default</layout>
</repository>

And add the dependency configuration as;

<dependency>
	<groupId>org.primefaces</groupId>
	<artifactId>primefaces</artifactId>
	<version>1.0.0 or 2.0.0</version>
</dependency>

Nightly Builds

Hudson builds and deploys PrimeFaces artifacts every day to Prime Technology Repository.

Sample Applications

A couple of sample applications including component showcase are also deployed to Prime Technology Repository on a daily basis. These projects are useful references you can use to integrate PrimeFaces with your favorite server side framework such as Seam or Spring. Note that these war bundles are bundled with JSF 2.0.

• Component Showcase
• PhoneBook - PrimeFaces,Seam,JPA
• MovieCollector - PrimeFaces,Spring,JPA