JavaServer Faces in Action (In Action series)

1073 Pages·2005·12.13 MB·English

by  Kito Mann

J S
AVA ERVER
F
ACES
IN AC TION
Kito D. Mann
Foreword by Ed Burns
M A N N I N G

JavaServer Faces
in Action
KITO D. MANN
MANNING
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(74° w. long.)
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brief contents
PART 1 EXPLORING JAVASERVER FACES .................................. 1
1 ■ Introducing JavaServer Faces 3
2 ■ JSF fundamentals 38
3 ■ Warming up: getting around JSF 88
4 ■ Getting started with the standard components 137
5 ■ Using the input and data table components 185
6 ■ Internationalization, validators, and converters 234
PART 2 BUILDING USER INTERFACES ..................................... 275
7 ■ Introducing ProjectTrack 277
8 ■ Developing a user interface without Java code:
the Login page 287
9 ■ Developing a user interface without Java code:
the other pages 316
10 ■ Integrating application functionality 354
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viii BRIEF CONTENTS
PART 3 DEVELOPING APPLICATION LOGIC ............................ 407
11 ■ The JSF environment 409
12 ■ Building an application: design issues and
foundation classes 456
13 ■ Building an application: backing beans, security,
and internationalization 499
14 ■ Integrating JSF with Struts and
existing applications 568

PART 4 WRITING CUSTOM COMPONENTS, RENDERERS,
VALIDATORS, AND CONVERTERS .............................. 603
15 ■ The JSF environment: a component
developer’s perspective 605

PART 5 WRITING CUSTOM COMPONENTS, RENDERERS,
VALIDATORS, AND CONVERTERS: EXAMPLES ........... 703
16 ■ UIInputDate: a simple input component 705
17 ■ RolloverButton renderer: a renderer
with JavaScript support 727
18 ■ UIHeadlineViewer: a composite,
data-aware component 756
19 ■ UINavigator: a model-driven toolbar component 794
20 ■ Validator and converter examples 839
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contents
foreword xxi
preface xxiii
acknowledgments xxv
about this book xxvii
about the title and cover xxxiii
PART 1 EXPLORING JAVASERVER FACES............................... 1
1 Introducing JavaServer Faces 3
1.1 It’s a RAD-ical world 4
So, what is JavaServer Faces? 5 ■ Industry support 10
1.2 The technology under the hood 10
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 11 ■ Servlets 12
Portlets 13 ■ JavaBeans 14 ■ JSP and other display
technologies 15
1.3 Frameworks, frameworks, frameworks 16
Why do we need frameworks? 16 ■ She’s a Model 2 17
JSF, Struts, and other frameworks 18
1.4 Components everywhere 19
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1.5 Hello, world! 22
Dissecting hello.jsp 24 ■ Dissecting goodbye.jsp 31
Examining the HelloBean class 32 ■ Configuration with
faces-config.xml 34 ■ Configuration with web.xml 36
1.6 Summary 37
2 JSF fundamentals 38
2.1 The key pieces of the pie 39
User interface components 41 ■ Renderers 43
Validators 44 ■ Backing beans 45 ■ Converters 48
Events and listeners 49 ■ Messages 55 ■ Navigation 56
2.2 The Request Processing Lifecycle 57
Phase 1: Restore View 61 ■ Phase 2: Apply Request Values 63
Phase 3: Process Validations 65 ■ Phase 4: Update Model
Values 66 ■ Phase 5: Invoke Application 66 ■ Phase 6:
Render Response 68
2.3 Understanding component and client identifiers 69
Naming containers 72 ■ Referencing identifiers 73
2.4 Exploring the JSF expression language 76
Understanding scoped variables 80 ■ Using implicit
variables 81 ■ Using the EL with components 83
2.5 Summary 86
3 Warming up: getting around JSF 88
3.1 Setting up your JSF environment 89
Basic requirements 89 ■ Choosing a JSF implementation 89
Directory structure 90 ■ Configuration 92
3.2 The role of JSP 102
Using JSP includes 103 ■ Using JSF with JSTL and other JSP
custom tags 104
3.3 Creating and initializing beans 110
Declaring managed beans 113 ■ Declaring Lists and Maps as
managed beans 123 ■ Setting values with value-binding
expressions 125
3.4 Navigating the sea of pages 129
3.5 Summary 136
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