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JSF 1.2 Components

By : IAN HLAVATS
Book Image

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

Chapter 7. JBoss RichFaces and Ajax4jsf Components

The JBoss RichFaces and Ajax4jsf component libraries represent some of the most exciting technologies available today for JSF developers. This powerful set of components significantly enhances web development on the Java EE platform. In this chapter, we will explore how to use JBoss RichFaces and Ajax4jsf components together with the Seam framework to create next generation Java web applications based on JSF.

Introducing JBoss RichFaces and Ajax4jsf

JBoss RichFaces and Ajax4jsf are two of the most advanced JSF component libraries available today. RichFaces includes around 75 rich user interface components that can greatly enhance the visual appeal and interactivity of a Web 2.0 application. Ajax4jsf includes around 25 mostly non-visual tags that provide the Ajax infrastructure on which RichFaces components are based.

The JBoss RichFaces component library

JBoss RichFaces is one of the most advanced JSF component libraries available today...