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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

Implementing JSF validation with Seam


The Seam framework can simplify the process of implementing JSF validation. Firstly, Seam encourages us to follow the "DRY" principle ("Don't Repeat Yourself") popularized in The Pragmatic Programmer and advises us to try to avoid repetition when writing code. We can apply the DRY principle to JSF by declaring our validation constraints once and only once in our domain model. This can be accomplished using Seam's built-in support for the Hibernate Validator framework.

Secondly, Seam removes the need to declare additional validators in our user interface. Registering validators such as the<f:validateLongRange> or<t:validateEmail> with our components and declaring custom validators in faces-config.xml becomes a thing of the past. As an additional benefit, Seam JSF validation includes enhancements such as highlighting invalid input fields that are not possible using basic JSF validation mechanisms.

In short, JSF validation is a significant improvement...