Book Description
Pro JSF and Ajax shows you how to leverage the full
potential of JavaServer Faces (JSF) and Ajax. This is not an
entry-level tutorial, but a book about building Ajax-enabled JSF
components for sophisticated, enterprise-level Rich Internet
Applications. Written by JSF experts and verified by established
community figuresincluding Adam Winer (member of the JSF Expert
Group, Java Champion), Kito D. Mann (JSFCentral.com and JSF in
Action), and Matthias Weßendorf (MyFaces)this JSF 1.2-compatible
book provides reliable and groundbreaking JSF components to help
you exploit the power of JSF in your Java web applications.
This book provides a blueprint for building custom JSF UI
components and shows how to leverage the best browser technologies,
such as AJAX, Mozilla XUL and Microsoft HTC, to deliver Rich
Internet Applications.
This book covers standard best practices for behavioral and
renderer-specific component classes, renderers, events and event
listeners, and JSP tag handlers for each. It also covers advanced
techniques such as dynamic content type negotiation, JAR-based
resource delivery, and dynamic render kit selection.
Foreword
"Does the world really and truly need another JavaServer Faces
book?
I was fairly well convinced the answer could only be a
resounding ''no''! After all, there''s a good half dozen books out
in stores today, by a whole host of web luminaries, and I''ve even
personally helped as a technical reviewer on half of those. So what
more could really be said on the subject?
But when I thought about this a bit more, it became clear that
all of these books only go so far. They''ll show you how to use
what JSF gives you out of the box, throw you a bone for writing
your own components and renderers, maybe even a bit more. But none
that I''ve seen get to the heart of why JSF is really and truly
cool and important technology; they make JSF look like YAMVCF (Yet
Another Model-View-Controller Framework) for HTML - more powerful
here and there, easier to use in many places, a bit harder to use
in others, but really nothing major. And certainly nothing that
takes us beyond the dull basics of building ordinary-looking web
applications.
This book goes a lot further. It''ll cover the basics, of
course, and show you how to build components, but then it keeps
going: on to AJAX, on to HTC, on to XUL - and how you can wrap this
alphabet soup up underneath the heart of JSF, its component model,
and how you can leverage it to finally develop web applications
that don''t need radical re-architecting every time the winds of
client technologies blow in a different direction. Along the way,
you''ll learn a wide array of open source toolkits that make web
magic practical even when you''re not a Javascript guru.
So, heck, I''m convinced. The world does need another JSF
book."
Adam Winer,
Architect ADF Faces, JSF Expert Group Member, and Java Champion.
(From the Foreword)