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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.

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JSF 1.2 Components
IAN HLAVATS
Nov, 2009 | 408 pages
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
JSF 1.2 Components
JSF 1.2 Components
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
Preface
Preface
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1
Standard JSF Components
Standard JSF Components
An introduction to JSF
Next steps
Getting input from the user
Form submission
Rendering text
Making selections
Laying out components
Displaying data
Summary
2
Facelets Components
Facelets Components
A brief history of Java web development
Comparing Facelets and JSP
Configuring a JSF application to use Facelets
Getting started with Facelets
Rendering debug information
Iterating data in a Facelets page
Removing UI components and markup
Including UI components and markup
Passing parameters from one Facelet to another
Rendering a UI composition
Rendering a UI component
Creating a Facelets UI composition template
Decorating the user interface
Rendering a UI fragment
An advanced Facelets composition template
Summary
3
Apache MyFaces Tomahawk Components
Apache MyFaces Tomahawk Components
Validating user input
Managing date and time selection
File management
Working with trees
Navigation menus
User interface security
Displaying data
Summary
4
Apache MyFaces Trinidad Components
Apache MyFaces Trinidad Components
Installation and Configuration
What is Ajax?
Receiving input from the user
Client-side conversion and validation
Enabling Ajax functionality
Laying out components on the screen
Shuttling selections between lists
Working with tree and tree table components
Creating navigation menus
Skinning and theme selection
Implementing dialog windows
Summary
5
ICEfaces Components
ICEfaces Components
Receiving input from users
Creating navigation and pop-up menus
Using tree components
Displaying data in tables
Rendering charts
Laying out components with panels
Creating a tabbed user interface
Working with modal dialogs
Summary
6
JBoss Seam Components
JBoss Seam Components
Introducing the JBoss Seam framework
Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) technology
Next steps
Validating user input with the Seam framework
Implementing JSF validation with Seam
Decorating the UI to improve form validation
Adding cutting-edge Ajax technology with Ajax4jsf
Displaying success messages in JSF
Seam conversation management
Debugging Seam applications
Summary
7
JBoss RichFaces and Ajax4jsf Components
JBoss RichFaces and Ajax4jsf Components
Introducing JBoss RichFaces and Ajax4jsf
Accepting user input
Using Ajax effectively
Panel components
Displaying data
Using special components
Summary
Learning JSF: Next Steps
Learning JSF: Next Steps
JSF 2.0
The PrimeFaces component library
Next steps

Using Ajax effectively

The Ajax4jsf tag library provides a number of powerful Ajax components that can significantly enhance the interactivity and performance of the user interface for a JSF application. One of the goals of Ajax is to enable more fine-grained communication between the browser and the web server, allowing the application to make incremental view updates without the overhead of a full-page reload for each minor change.

As Ajax-based interactivity can increase the "chattiness" of a web page, the developers of the Ajax4jsf library made sure to include some performance-tuning features in the component library. Let's examine some of the key features of Ajax4jsf and discuss how we can use Ajax effectively in combination with RichFaces and Seam to improve the end user experience for our application.

Understanding how Ajax4jsf works

Ajax4jsf is a powerful Ajax implementation for JSF that includes a number of advanced features. Before diving into the details, let's review the Ajax concept...

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