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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

Displaying data


There are many ways to display data to the user with HTML. For example, we can use an inline series of text values, an unordered list, an ordered list, a definition list, or a table to present the same information. In the previous chapter, we looked at an example that used an HTML<table> element rendered by the<h:dataTable> tag. In this chapter, we will look at several Tomahawk components that support iterating Java data structures and rendering data to the user in interesting ways.

Let's begin by studying the HTML tags available for presenting lists and collections of information before we look at the Tomahawk components that utilize these particular tags during the rendering phase of the JSF request processing lifecycle.

When implementing a web page that displays data to the user, how do we know which are the right HTML elements to use? The answer to this question depends on a number of factors, such as the volume and type of information being presented, and...