JavaServer Faces Programming

Summary

Explains exciting new JavaServer Faces framework components and then shows you how to put them to work with real-world examples and usable codes. Developers of varying skill levels learn to quickly and easily build Web applications by assembling reusable UI components in a page, connecting these components to an application data source, and wiring client-generated events to server-side event handlers.

Your one-stop resource for JavaServer Faces programming

Stretch JavaServer Faces to the limit and create professional JSF programs with this guide to the ultimate framework available for rapidly building Java Web applications. After a brief overview of the underlying and related technologies, youll learn to write and deploy a JSF application, then follow comprehensive tutorials on how to use standard GUI components, input validation, and converters, as well as on how to control page navigation, manage JavaBeans, and write event listeners. Advanced coverage includes writing custom GUI components, extending input validators, providing support for internationalization, and developing a real-world online-store application.

• Review servlets, JSP technologies, JavaBeans, custom tag libraries, and the Model 2 architecture
  
• Understand the component tree, event-driven programming, input validation, and page navigation
  
• Write model objects and incorporate GUI components into JSP pages
  
• Manage page navigation and JavaBeans
  
• Use standard validators and converters, or write your own custom ones
  
• Support internationalization and localization
  
• Edit the elements within Application Configuration files
  
• Write shorter JSP pages and eliminate the use of scripts
  
• Build a real-world online store application
  
• Understand the technical details on how JSF works

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Budi Kurniawan is an IT consultant specializing in Internet and object-oriented programming and has taught both Java and Microsoft technologies. He has written several computer programming books, including How Tomcat Works and Java Web Development with Servlets, JSP, and EJB, Second Edition. He holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering, and is the developer of the Java File Upload component most licensed by Fortune 500 companies.

Table of Contents

1: Overview of Java Web Technologies

2: Introduction to JavaServer Faces (JSF)

3: Objects for Request Processing

4: The User Interface Component Model

5: JSF Simple Components

6: JSF Advanced Components

7: JSF Event Handling

8: Page Navigation

9: Validators

10: Converters

11: Internationalization and Localization

12: Renderers

13: Custom User Interface Components

14: Online Store Application

15: The Application Configuration File

16: Summing Up: How JSF Works

17: The JSP 2.0 Expression Language

18: The JSP Standard Tag Library

A: Installing and Configuring Tomcat 5

B: The Web Application Deployment Descriptor