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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

Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) technology


Let's consider some of the benefits of using the full Java EE technology stack in our JSF applications. Since you are reading this book, it's a safe bet that you have an interest in Java Web frameworks, you most likely have some experience working with both Java Standard Edition (Java SE) and Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) middleware APIs such as JDBC and Servlets/JSP, and you are probably familiar with the JavaBeans programming model. (If you do not have experience with these APIs, you may want to pick up a book or two on the subject. The more familiar you are with these and other enterprise Java technologies, the easier it will be to understand how they can be integrated together in the context of a JSF application and the more you will appreciate their value from a development point of view.)

Over the past few years there has been a growing trend in the Enterprise Java community towards simpler, lighter, and more elegant programming paradigms...