Before we can start building a JSF application with MyFaces, we have to prepare our development environment and our application server. This chapter focuses on both of these things.
In this chapter we will cover the following topics:
Installing the Apache MyFaces libraries in both Eclipse and JDeveloper
Creating an empty project in which a JSF application with MyFaces can be created
The most important configuration files for the application server on which the application is to be deployed
Introduction to the example case that will be used throughout this book
In this section, we will discuss two Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) that can be used for developing JSF applications with the Apache MyFaces libraries:
Eclipse is covered because it is very widely used, freely available, and open source
JDeveloper is covered because it has features that are extra powerful when used in combination with MyFaces Trinidad, and is...