Pro JSF and HTML5: Building Rich Internet Components

by Hazem Saleh, Allan Lykke Christensen, Zubin Wadia

Pro JSF and HTML5 shows you how to leverage the full potential of JavaServer Faces (JSF) and HTML5. This book is for Java developers who aspire to build sophisticated, enterprise-grade web experiences with HTML5-enabled JSF. Written by JSF experts and verified by established community figures, this book will serve as your primary resource, helping you build or integrate well-designed HTML5-enabled JSF components into your rich internet applications.Pro JSF and HTML5 starts by giving you a firm grounding in the design principles of component-based frameworks and the basics of JSF. It then details recent advancements in JSF 2.2 that make it friendlier, faster, and more productive than ever before. And it covers HTML5-enabled components, integration with JEE7 standards, 3rd party component libraries, security, and performance. The book concludes with a real-world application that puts everything you learned into practice.

In this book you’ll learn

Foundational JSF topics such as the component life cycle, framework architecture, managed beans and CDI, expression language, conversion and validation, JSF events and view parameters.

Leveraging new features in JSF 2.2 such as Faces Flow, Resource Library Contracts, and Ajax file uploading.

Developing Advanced HTML5 enabled components in JSF 2.2.

Creating JSF 2.2 applications that utilize Java EE 7 technologies (CDI, JPA 2.1 and EJB 3.2) for bean management, transaction management and persistence.

Building advanced real-world JSF applications with considerations for security, performance, and usability.

If you’re a Java developer interested in the world of component-based frameworks, Pro JSF and HTML5 is for you.

599 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 20, 2014

About the author

Hazem Saleh has ten years of experience in Java EE, Mobile and Open Source technologies. He worked as a technical consultant for many clients in Europe (Sweden), North America (USA, Canada), South America (Peru), Africa (Egypt, Morocco, Zambia), and Asia (Qatar, Kuwait, KSA). He is an Apache MyFaces committer and a person who spent many years of his life writing open source software. Beside being the author of the "JavaScript Unit Testing" book, "Pro JSF and HTML5" book and the co-author of the "Definitive guide to Apache MyFaces" book, Hazem is also an author of many technical articles, a developerWorks contributing author and a technical speaker in both local and international conferences such as ApacheCon North America, Geecon, JSFDays, CON-FESS Vienna and JavaOne (San Francisco, Moscow, and Shanghai). Hazem is now working for IBM Egypt as an advisory software engineer. He is a member of the IBM Mobile Global CoC (Centre of Competency), and an IBM Certified Expert IT Specialist (L2).