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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 special components

The RichFaces component library includes a number of special-purpose components that can be used to enhance the functionality of an existing JSF application. Some examples of these include the RichFaces HtmlGmap and HtmlVirtualEarth components, which render a Google Maps object and a Microsoft Virtual Earth object respectively.

Rendering a Google Maps object

The<rich:gmap> tag can be used to render a Google Maps object on our JSF page. This tag can be combined with Ajax4jsf tags to integrate the Google map with custom JavaScript functions and JSF backing bean data.

In this example, we will be using the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) to transfer data between our JSF application and web browser. Ajax4jsf supports this data transfer format and automatically serializes our Java objects into JSON data structures.

To begin, we write a new Java class named Location that will encapsulate the geographic information needed to display different locations on the...

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