Book Description
Over 100 simple but incredibly effective recipes for taking control of your JSF applications
Discover JSF 2.0 features through complete examples
Put in action important JSF frameworks, such as Apache MyFaces Core, Trinidad, Tomahawk, RichFaces Core, Sandbox and so on
Develop JSF projects under NetBeans/Glassfish v3 Prelude and Eclipse/JBoss AS
Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible
In Detail
JavaServer Faces is a Java-based Web application framework intended to simplify development of user interfaces for Java EE applications. You may already be aware of the laborious search through reference guides and documentation to develop your JSF applications. With the JSF Cookbook, you can find solutions to the most common JSF problems in a quick and easy way.
This book will cover all the important aspects involved in developing JSF applications. It provides clear instructions for getting the most out of JSF and offers many exercises to build impressive desktop-style interfaces for your web applications. Develop JSF applications starting with simple recipes and gradually moving on to complex recipes.
We discuss all of the fundamental aspects of JSF applications. Once you locate your desired topic, you can try to find a recipe that corresponds to your problem.
We start off with the simple concepts of Converters, validators and file management. We then work our way with various resources such as CSS, JavaScript, and images to improve your web applications. You will learn to build simple and complex custom components to suit your needs. Next, you get to exploit AJAX as well as implement internationalization and localization for your JSF applications. We then look into ensuring security for your applications and perform testing of your applications. You also get to learn all about Facelets and explore the newest JSF 2.0 features. Finally you get learn a few integrations such as JSTL with JSF, Spring with JSF, and Hibernate with JSF. All these concepts are presented in the form of easy-to-follow recipes.
Each chapter discusses separate types of recipes and they are presented with an increasing level of complexity from simple to advanced. All of these recipes can be used with JSF 1.2 as well.
This book helps you to find solutions to the most common aspects regarding JSF development with clear and easy-to-follow recipes
Table of Contents
- JSF 2.0 Cookbook
- JSF 2.0 Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- Preface
- 1. Using Standard and Custom Converters in JSF
- Introduction
- Working with implicit and explicit conversions
- Standard converters for numbers
- Standard converters for date and time
- Converters and NULL values
- Creating and using a custom converter
- Using custom converters for h:selectOneMenu
- Binding converters to backing bean properties
- RichFaces and standard converters
- RichFaces and custom converters
- Instance variables in converters
- Client-side converters with MyFaces Trinidad
- 2. Using Standard and Custom Validators in JSF
- Introduction
- Using a standard validator
- Customizing error messages for validators
- Creating a custom validator
- Binding validators to backing bean properties
- Validating forms with RichFaces rich:beanValidator
- Validating forms with RichFaces rich:ajaxValidator
- Apache MyFaces Commons validators
- Bean validation with f:validateBean
- Enforcing a value's presence with f:validateRequired
- Using regular expressions with f:validateRegex
- 3. File Management
- Introduction
- Downloading files using Mojarra Scales
- Multi-file upload using Mojarra Scales
- File upload with Apache MyFaces Tomahawk
- AJAX multi-file upload with RichFaces
- Downloading with PrimeFaces 2.0
- PPR multi-file upload with PrimeFaces 2.0
- Extracting data from an uploaded CSV file
- Exporting data to Excel, PDF, CVS, and XML
- 4. Security
- 5. Custom Components
- Introduction
- Building a "HelloWorld" JSF custom component
- Renderers/validators for custom components
- Adding AJAX support to JSF custom components
- Using Proxy Id library for dynamic IDs
- Using JSF ID Generator
- Accessing resources from custom components
- Custom components with Archetypes for Maven
- RichFaces CDK and custom components
- Composite custom components with zero Java
- Creating a login composite component in JSF 2.0
- Building a spinner composite component in JSF 2.0
- Mixing JSF and Dojo widget for custom components
- 6. AJAX in JSF
- 7. Internationalization and Localization
- Introduction
- Loading message resource bundles in JSF
- Using locales and message resource bundles
- Message resource bundles without f:loadBundle
- Working with parameterized messages
- Accessing message resource keys from a class
- Providing a theme to a Visual Web JSF Project
- Displaying Arabic, Chinese, Russian, and so on
- Selecting a time zone in JSF 2.0
- 8. JSF, Images, CSS, and JS
- Introduction
- Injecting CSS in JSF
- JSF, CSS, and tables
- JSF and dynamic CSS
- Integrating JavaScript and JSF
- Getting a JSF inputText value from JavaScript
- Working with JSF hidden fields from JavaScript
- Passing parameters from JS to JSF (client to server)
- Passing parameters from JSF to JS (server to client)
- Opening a pop-up window using JSF and JS
- Passing parameters with HTTP GET within the URL
- Communication between parent pop-up windows
- Populating a JS load function with JSF values
- Dynamic images with PrimeFaces
- Cropping images with PrimeFaces
- Working with rss4jsf project
- Using resource handlers
- 9. JSF—Managing and Testing
- 10. Facelets
- 11. JSF 2.0 Features
- 12. Mixing JSF with Other Technologies
- A. Configuring JSF-related Technologies