mastering javaserver™ faces

[...]... keep handy at your elbow as you develop JavaServer Faces applications Ed Burns, JSF Implementation Lead and Co-Specification Lead Introduction JavaServer Faces (JSF) is an exciting new technology that will change the way we build user interfaces for Java 2 Enterprise Edition applications With the introduction of JSF, we can finally create user interfaces simply with a set of reusable components And... directly to the development of JavaServer Faces, also the team of dedicated engineers that brought the first reference implementation to market, and the early adopters in our initial access and beta program who discovered the hard bugs and had the patience to wait for us to get it right the first time xv xvi Foreword Now, to the matter of Mastering JavaServer Faces This book is all about getting you... and managing the use case process Foreword JavaServer Faces is a holistic solution to several longstanding problems facing software developers and the customers who consume the software For the end user, JavaServer Faces holds the promise of an easier, more intuitive usage experience for Web-based applications For software developers, JavaServer Faces provides a standard, object-oriented, easy-to-use... Mastering JavaServer Faces This book is all about getting you up to speed and productive with JavaServer Faces quickly, and providing enough depth to keep you on track once you are The authors have done a great job of taking the complexity inherent in providing a complete API for Web application user interfaces and pulling out the simple concepts on which this API was built If you’ve read any of the author’s... programming interface (API) that takes much of the pain out of bringing a great user experience to the world of Web applications JavaServer Faces gives users the power, flexibility, and performance that have previously been addressed only in a piecemeal fashion JavaServer Faces was developed by a community of Web application experts assembled by the Java Community Process These experts are the people behind... be surprised to see how heavily JSF is influenced by both frameworks MVC and User Interfaces MVC was first popularized with Smalltalk (Goldberg & Robson 1983) and is now used in many modern user interface frameworks One of the primary benefits of MVC is that it provides reusable components for interactive user interfaces Swing does this admirably for rich Java clients, while Struts does so to a lesser... flow and be executed The component-based model also allows developers to focus on providing great features instead of trying to focus on two or three different models for building Web-based user interfaces It also allows the promise of reusable offthe-shelf components in the future In the same way that you can purchase a Swing-based UI component that plots graphs of data, you will be able to buy off-the-shelf... application is made of four tiers: Web, JSP/Servlet, EJB, and database JSF fits into the JSP/Servlet tier and provides a component-based approach to building applications JSF provides a way to build user interfaces and delegate the business processing to the next layer (that is, the EJB layer) We will see a lot more about this in Chapter 1, “JSF Patterns and Architecture.” Application logic can take the form... into building real-world applications The following chapters are in this section: Chapter 4: JSF Configuration This chapter deals with what you have to do to configure your JSF application Details of the faces- config.xml file and what to add to your Web.xml file as well as how to get the TagLibs setup will be covered Chapter 5: JSP Integration in JSF This chapter covers the details of how JSF integrates... with JSF as well as be able to create your own Introduction xxiii Part 3, “Applying JSF,” covers using JSF in the real world to build applications Specifically covered here are integrating JSF user interfaces with the business tier (be it EJB or POJO), building custom components to render your own user interface components, and converting your existing Struts applications to JSF The following chapters . 81 Faces Request Generates Faces Response 83 Non -Faces Request Generates Faces Response 83 Faces Request Generates Non -Faces Response 84 Non -Faces Request Generates Non -Faces Response 85 Faces. Mattingly Mastering JavaServer ™ Faces 01_462071 ffirs.qxd 5/18/04 8:34 AM Page i 01_462071 ffirs.qxd 5/18/04 8:34 AM Page iv Bill Dudney Jonathan Lehr Bill Willis LeRoy Mattingly Mastering. 5/18/04 8:36 AM Page xv Now, to the matter of Mastering JavaServer Faces. This book is all about get- ting you up to speed and productive with JavaServer Faces quickly, and pro- viding enough depth