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Java EE Development with Eclipse

By : Deepak Vohra
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Java EE Development with Eclipse

By: Deepak Vohra

Overview of this book

<p>Java EE is the industry standard on enterprise computing and Oracle WebLogic Server is the most comprehensive platform for enterprise applications. The book combines Java EE with WebLogic Server in the most commonly used Java IDE, the Eclipse IDE 3.7.<br /><br />"Java EE Development with Eclipse" is the only book on Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers. The book is a practical guide for using the most commonly used Java EE technologies and frameworks in Eclipse IDE. Sample applications are available in downloadable format and may be customized to meet requirements. Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 12c, an enhancement to Eclipse IDE, providing additional project facets and an integrated support for Oracle WebLogic Server is used.<br /><br />"Java EE Development with Eclipse" is based on developing applications with some of the commonly used technologies using the project facets in Eclipse 3.7 and its enhancement Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 12c. <br /><br />The book starts with a discussion on EJB 3.0 database persistence with Oracle database XE and Oracle WebLogic Server. JAXB is discussed in the context of bi-directional mapping between XML and Java. A generic web project is developed for PDF and Excel spread sheet reports. JavaServer Faces, the most commonly used view component in web applications is discussed for developing a data table. Facelets, which was integrated into JSF with 2.0 version is discussed in the context of templating. ADF Faces components are used to develop another user interface (UI) application. Web services are discussed with JAX-WS and JAX-RS technologies. Java EE frameworks Ajax and Spring are also discussed.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Java EE Development with Eclipse
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Facelets structure


Before we develop the application we shall review the Facelets technology. Facelets provides a set of XML tags in the http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets namespace. With Facelets in JSF 2.0, we don't need to configure a view handler as we needed to in JSF 1.2. Facelets tags are used with JSF Core and JSF HTML tag libraries to develop a JSF Facelets application. Some of the commonly used Facelets tags are discussed in the following table:

Facelets tag

Description

Attributes

ui:composition

Defines a composition of the UIComponent instances. A composition may consist of multiple UI components. Text not within ui:composition tags is not compiled in a Facelet and is ignored; it is not included in the rendered output.

template: This is an optional attribute. template specifies the template to use for adding the UIComponent instances within a composition.

ui:define

ui:define is used in a Facelet page in conjunction with the target template's ui:insert tags to add...