Mastering JavaServer Faces (Java) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Bill Dudney, Jonathan Lehr, Bill Willis, Leroy Mattingly
Publisher: Wiley
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ISBN: 0471462071
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UPC: 723812604838
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Publication Date: June 7, 2004
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Product Description
Harness the power of JavaServer Faces to create your own server-side user interfaces for the Web
This innovative book arms you with the tools to utilize JavaServer Faces (JSF), a new standard that will make building user interfaces for J2EE(TM) applications a lot easier. The authors begin by painting the architectural big picture-covering everything from the Patterns that are used in the implementation to the typical JSF Request/Response lifecycle. Next, you'll learn how to use JSF in the real world by uncovering the various pieces of the JSF component model, such as UI components, events and validation. The authors then explain how to apply JSF, including how to integrate JSF user interfaces with the Business Tier and how to render your own user interface components. By following this approach, you'll be able to confidently create and validate your own custom applications that meet the needs of your company.
Whether working in J2EE or J2SE(TM), this book will show you how to:
* Use UI Components to build your user interface
* Ensure that the data you store meets the business rules for your application
* Integrate JSF with JSPs through the custom Tag feature in JSP implementations
* Build JSF applications that interact with either EJBs or POJOs
* Validate a new component and queue events to invoke custom application logic
* Move your application from Struts to JSF
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 Not to be used as an introduction into JSF November 6, 2007
seventhGene
If you are new to JSF, this is not the first place to go searching-this book clearly does not use the hello world (learning) pattern to introduce you to this technology. You could get frustrated with the first 3 chapters especially if you do not have any swing or struts knowledge.That said, this book is without any doubt rich in content.If you already have had hands on experience in JSF and are intending to go a mile further, following the writers wouldn't be difficult.The first few chapters are however more explanatory than example oriented.
Whither hello world? June 1, 2007
AA (Ashburn, VA)
If you are like me, you don't have the time to read about the philosophy behind the design of JSF or how it's more like swing than struts. Why can't the authors of such books start with a hello world example. Most experienced programmers can figure out the basics of JSF just by looking at the hello world example and relating it to technologies they've already used(struts, perhaps?). Most authors can't resist the temptation to impress us with the awesome power of the new framework especially when they haven't introduced the basic examples? Why have a whole chapter explaining the intricacies of faces-config.xml before you really introduce a simple application? I got more out of http://www.jsftutorials.net than the first few chapters of this book. Get eclipse wtp, install the jsf plugin and go through the tutorial.
 Could be a 5 star book, but missing an important piece October 25, 2006
J. Garcia (Acworth, GA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book reads very well. Explains most things very clearly but the examples are missing what to put into the faces-config.xml file. Ch. 5, Ch 6, ... have some nice examples and show you what goes in the jsp files but as you add to these jsp files you need to make the necessary adjustments to the faces-config.xml file too. You have to download the source to see the contents of the faces-config.xml file.
As a beginner, I found this very frustrating and out searching the net for more tutorials that show how to make adjustments to the faces-config.xml and the JSP file.
Other than this issue, the book is good the learning about the JSP/JSF contents.
It is just disappointing that this book was so close, if it had covered the faces-config.xml I would have given it 5 stars.
Mastering JavaServer Faces August 6, 2005
Anthony Maniaci (Phoenix, CA USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Good outline of JavaServer Faces but not enough examples. Too much theory not enough practical examples. It is not a complete reference so you need other books or sources to get answers on specific functions and uses of JavaServer Faces.
Could be better April 5, 2005
Jose R. C. Martins (Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Brazil)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
The problem is that the book has a lot of mistakes and don't explain some mechanism like ValueBinding. The book use hibernate to persist data to database and this can be a problem to people who don't know this technology, in my opinion they should have used plain JDBC technology, it would be much easier to the readers.
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