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JBoss RichFaces 3.3

By : Demetrio Filocamo
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JBoss RichFaces 3.3

By: Demetrio Filocamo

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<p>JBoss RichFaces is a rich component library for JavaServer Faces and an AJAX framework that allows easy integration of AJAX capabilities into complex business applications. Do you wish to eliminate the time involved in writing JavaScript code and managing JavaScript-compatibility between browsers to build an AJAX web application quickly?<br /><br />This book goes beyond the documentation to teach you how to do that. It will show you how to get the most out of JBoss RichFaces by explaining the key components and how you can use them to enhance your applications. Most importantly, you will learn how to integrate AJAX into your applications without using JavaScript but only standard JSF components. You will learn how to create and customize your own components and add them to your new or existing applications.<br /><br />First, the book introduces you to JBoss RichFaces and its components. It uses many examples of AJAX components which, among others, include: Calendar, Data Table, ToolTip, ToolBar, Menu, RichEditor, Drag'n'Drop. All these components will help you create the web site you always imagined. Key aspects of the RichFaces framework such as the AJAX framework, skinnability, and CDK (Component Development Kit) will help you customize the look of your web application. As you progress through the book, you will see a sample application that shows you how to build an advanced contact manager. You're also going to be amazed to know about the advanced topics you will learn like developing new components, new skins, optimizing a web application, inserting components dynamically using Java instead of XHTML, and using JavaScript to manage components. This book is more than a reference with component example code: it's a manual that will guide you, step-by-step, through the development of a real AJAX JSF web application.</p>

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JBoss RichFaces 3.3
Demetrio Filocamo
Oct, 2009 | 320 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
JBoss RichFaces 3.3
JBoss RichFaces 3.3
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
What is RichFaces?
What is RichFaces?
An overview of RichFaces
A bit of history
The Ajax framework
RichFaces components overview
RichFaces skinnability overview
Summary
2
Getting Ready
Getting Ready
Creating a RichFaces JSF project the simple way
Adding RichFaces manually to your existing JSF project
IDEs
Summary
3
First Steps
First Steps
A simple contact manager
Summary
4
The Application
The Application
What we are going to develop?
The database: E-R diagram
Importing the database
Creating the project
The class diagram
The menu page
The login page
The home page
Summary
5
Making the Application Structure
Making the Application Structure
Skinnability and dynamic skin change
Internationalization
Menu bar using rich:toolBar component
Making the login work
User registration
Reset password box
Forgot username box
URL rewriting: making it simple and powerful
Summary
6
Making the Contacts List and Detail
Making the Contacts List and Detail
The main layout
The contacts list
The contact detail
Summary
7
Finishing the Application
Finishing the Application
Taking a note of every contact
Let's group our contacts
Attaching files
Summary
8
Skin Customization
Skin Customization
Skinnability
Customize skin parameters
Using skins with non-skinnable components
Summary
9
Creating a New plug 'n' skin
Creating a New plug 'n' skin
Installing Maven
Creating the new skin
Customizing the new skin
Packaging and deploying the new skin
Summary
10
Advanced Techniques
Advanced Techniques
Poll
Push
Creating a RichFaces JavaScript function
Partial update of data iteration components
RichFaces component binding in JBoss Seam / JBoss Application Server environment
The tree component
Controlling the session expiration
Summary
11
Component Development Kit
Component Development Kit
Configuring the environment
Creating the project
Creating the component
Testing the new component
Summary
RichFaces Components Overview
RichFaces Components Overview
Ajax sup0port
Resources/beans handling
Ajax Validators
Ajax output
Ajax miscellaneous
Data iteration
Drag-and-drop support
Rich Menu
Rich trees
Rich output
Rich input
Rich Selects
Rich miscellaneous
JSF 2 and RichFaces 4
RichFaces 3.3.X
JSF 2.0
RichFaces 4.X
Index
Index

JSF 2.0

In order to do the same in JSF 2.0, you would use the following code: 

<h:inputText value="#{myBean.myProperty}" >
  <f:ajax 
         event="blur" 
         execute="@form" 
         listener="#{myBean.doSomethingListener}" 
         render="myComponent"/>
</h:inputText>

As you can see, it is not very different—we can notice a name change (obviously), the listener instead of the action, render in place of reRender, and a new attribute called execute. It works a bit like the RichFaces process attribute, telling what to send with the request, but simplified (then not so powerful like the RichFaces one). In this case, the @form value tells that all the form should be sent (you can also use, for example, @this to just send the surrounding component).

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