In this chapter, we explored the visual web features of NetBeans, which allow us to develop JSF web applications by simply dragging and dropping components into a page.

We saw how to use some of the most commonly used visual web components, such as drop-down and text field components, as well as some more elaborate components, such as the tab component.

Additionally, we covered how to bind components to database data; specifically how to populate a drop-down component's options from a database table.

Finally, we also saw how easy it is to incorporate Ajax functionality into visual web applications by taking advantage of JavaScript functions provided by the Woodstock JSF library.

We certainly didn't cover each and every component provided by visual JSF, since doing so would probably take a whole book, however we did provide the general workflow to be used when working with visual JSF, and this knowledge can be used when using each and every one of the components.