We made tremendous strides in this chapter towards a working application by examining a popular and contemporary business model. We looked at how conversational scope could help drive an instant secure lending application. Conversation scope allows us to easily write the customer journey and the wizard form that takes the user gradually through a process. Conversation scope ensures that data is stored over a lifecycle between the request and the session scopes.

We talked very briefly about a useful design pattern called Entity-Control-Boundary. It was revealed how this pattern is similar to the MVC pattern.

Along the way, we saw a JavaScript module that linked an HTML5 range component together with a Bootstrap CSS Progress element. We studied how JSF provides AJAX with partial updates of a view. We also learnt that we could replace static singleton classes with the CDI application-scoped POJOs.

Finally, we took a deep dive into custom composite components. We now know how to write a...