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JSF 1.2 Components

By : IAN HLAVATS
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JSF 1.2 Components

By: IAN HLAVATS

Overview of this book

Today's web developers need powerful tools to deliver richer, faster, and smoother web experiences. JavaServer Faces includes powerful, feature-rich, Ajax-enabled UI components that provide all the functionality needed to build web applications in a Web 2.0 world. It's the perfect way to build rich, interactive, and "Web 2.0-style" Java web apps. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the most popular JSF components available today and demonstrate step-by-step how to build increasingly sophisticated JSF user interfaces with standard JSF, Facelets, Apache Tomahawk/Trinidad, ICEfaces, JBoss Seam, JBoss RichFaces/Ajax4jsf, and JSF 2.0 components. JSF 1.2 Components is both an excellent starting point for new JSF developers, and a great reference and “how to” guide for experienced JSF professionals. This book progresses logically from an introduction to standard JSF HTML, and JSF Core components to advanced JSF UI development. As you move through the book, you will learn how to build composite views using Facelets tags, implement common web development tasks using Tomahawk components, and add Ajax capabilities to your JSF user interface with ICEfaces components. You will also learn how to solve the complex web application development challenges with the JBoss Seam framework. At the end of the book, you will be introduced to the new and up-coming JSF component libraries that will provide a road map of the future JSF technologies.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
JSF 1.2 Components
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Navigation menus


The Tomahawk component library includes a number of useful components for creating navigation menus for our JSF applications. Depending on the information architecture of the website, and the number of static and dynamic views within the application, a navigation menu may be simple or complex. It may have a small set of top-level menu items, or it may have a large number of submenus and submenu items.

The navigation components in the Tomahawk component library integrate with the declarative navigation and page flow support provided by the JSF framework. A typical JSF application will have navigation rules declared in faces-config.xml that specify the page flow for the use cases supported by the application.

<navigation-rule>
<display-name>*</display-name>
<from-view-id>*</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>products</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/products.jsf</to-view-id>
<redirect />
</navigation...