Core JavaServer Faces

by David Geary

JavaServer Faces promises to bring rapid user-interface development to server-side Java. It allows developers to painlessly write server-side applications without worrying about the complexities of dealing with browsers and Web servers. It also automates low-level, boring details like control flow and moving code between web forms and business logic.

JavaServer Faces was designed to support drag and drop development of server-side applications," but you can also think of it as a conceptual layer on top of servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP). Experienced JSP developers will find that JavaServer Faces provides much of the plumbing that they currently have to implement by hand. If you already use a server-side framework such as Struts, you will find that JavaServers Faces uses a similar architecture, but is more flexible and extensible. JavaServer Faces also comes with server-side components and an event model, which are fundamentally similar to the same concepts in Swing.

JavaServer Faces is quickly becoming the standard Web-application framework. Core JavaServer Faces is the one book you need to master this powerful and time-saving technology.

Without assuming knowledge of JSP and servlets, Core JavaServer Faces:

shows how to build more robust applications and avoid tedious handcoding answers questions most developers don't even know to ask demonstrates how to use JSF with Tiles to build consistent user interfaces automatically provides hints, tips, and explicit "how-to" information that allows you to quickly become more productive explains how to integrate JSF with databases, use directory services,wireless apps, and Web services teaches best practices and good habits like using style sheets and message bundles covers all of the JSF tags and how to create new tag libraries

Genres: Programming, Software, Technical, Reference, Technology, Web, Computers

570 pages, Hardcover

First published June 15, 2004

Reviews

[Malarvizhi Kandasamy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has good stuff, especially when you are preparing for JSF (1Z0-896)exam. Though the book doesn't explain :
* Authorization in detail,
* web.xml security declarations
* CDI beans, Managed beans and EJB beans with clarity
* Programming with JSF APIs. Atleast few APIs like ConfigurableNavigationHandler, NavigationHandler etc should have been covered.
* Implicit Objects in JSF

[Russell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow this is a good read. Geary and Horstmann have authored a very readable guide to JSF basics and provide clear code examples along the way. The last couple chapters (which I believe are new to this addition) give some insight into using Ajax and incorporating data persistence into a typical Faces app.

[Jason · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked this book. I learned JSF years ago by camping out with an earlier edition of this book. This new version is just as good, adding updates that cover what's new in JSF 2. I found the text to be very readable and approachable. If you're using JSF, this book should be on your shelf.

[Beth]

This seems like a fairly good introduction to JavaServer Faces, but I changed jobs and no longer need to read it.

[Sean]

Really good book.

[Mike Salzman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Leaves out some elements and doesn't explain others as well as I needed, but it was a good primer for JSF. And just as soon as I'm done reading it, I'm no longer on the UI team at work.

[Jeff Stade · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this semester for my computer science 3 course. Solid primer on using Java in enterprise web applications and, from the students perspective, a solid textbook as well.

[Luboš · Rating 3 out of 5]

I do not like JSF, otherwise I would probably rate higher.

[Hazem Saleh · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is one of the wonderful books in order to learn the JSF basics.

[Gino Filicetti]

False

[Nuno Inácio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rating for 3rd edition.