This comprehensive 5 day class shows Java programmers how to build web applications with JavaServer Faces 2.0. We develop the best-practice concepts that are formalized by the JSF architecture, from model/view/controller to the UI component framework and request-handling lifecycle. Students start to discover that there is a “JSF way” of doing things, and we learn not just APIs and tag libraries but the habit of slicing application logic into its most reusable forms: managed beans, event listeners, converters, validators, and more.
Students acquire a firm command of JSF development, learning to work with JSF’s list and table components, building reusable composite components, and building Ajax applications. Simple, high-level Ajax functionality is covered, and students also work more directly with JSF’s JavaScript API and resource-management framework.
Goals
- Understand the purpose and scope of the JSF architecture
- Build web applications using JSF’s FacesServlet, faces-config.xml, and the JSF request/response lifecycle
- Use Facelets tag libraries to build JSF views
- Use managed beans to encapsulate form handling and server-side presentation logic
- Implement control logic as JSF event listeners or action methods
- Use validators and converters to implement a validation phase for a JSF application
- Build composite UI fragments or custom components using Facelets
- Build Ajax applications with JSF: client-side behaviors and partial requests and responses followed by DOM updates
Outline
- Overview
- Java EE and Web Applications
- Perspectives: Servlets and JSP
- Perspectives: MVC Frameworks
- Perspectives: AWT and JFC
- JSF Value Proposition
- JSF Configuration
- Issues with JSP and JSF
- Facelets
- Lifecycle
- The JSF Request/Response Cycle
- Lifecycle Phases
- Phase Listeners
- The FacesContext Class
- Who Does What
- Partial Request Cycles
- UI Components
- The UIComponent Class
- Behavioral Interfaces
- The Core and HTML Tag Libraries
- Relationship to CSS
- ID, Client ID, and Label
- UISelectItem(s)
- Navigating the UI Tree
- The binding Attribute
- Page Navigation
- View Selection
- Navigation Rules
- Implicit Navigation
- Problems with POSTback
- Post/Redirect/Get
- Support for HTTP GET
- Conditional Navigation
- Managed Beans
- JavaBeans and JSF
- Backing Beans
- Configuring Managed Beans
- @ManagedBean and Related Annotations
- The Unified Expression Language
- Value and Method Expressions
- Implicit Objects
- Scopes
- Managed-Bean Scopes
- Lifecycle Annotations
- View Parameters
- The Flash
- Dependency Injection
- Managed Properties
- Values, Lists, and Maps
- Using Dynamic Expressions
- Dependencies and Bean Scopes
- The @ManagedProperty Annotation
- Facelets
- Migrating from JSP
- View Definition Languages
- Facelets
- Tag Libraries
- Writing and Using Custom Tags
- Events and Listeners
- JSF Event Model
- Event Types and Timing
- Event Queueing
- ActionEvent and ActionListener
- Action Methods
- Connecting Controllers to Beans
- ValueChangeEvent and ValueChangeListener
- Deferring Event Processing
- Limitations of FacesListeners
- Lists and Tables
- Working with Collections
- Why We Don’t Use <c:anything> <c:anyMore>
- <ui:repeat> vs. <c:forEach>
- <h:dataTable>
- Defining Columns and Facets
- One Command Per Row
- Reading the Row Number
- Pseudo-Maps
- Working with Persistent Data
- Concurrency and Caching
- Limiting the Scope of Queries
- Paging
- Converters
- The Converter Interface
- Life of a Datum
- Standard Converters
- Custom Converters
- The @FacesConverter Annotation
- Timing of Conversion
- Representing Persistent Objects by ID
- Validators
- The Validator Interface
- Standard Validators
- Using Regular Expressions
- Producing Error Messages
- Message Keys
- Presenting Error Messages
- Posting Error Messages from Anywhere
- Custom Validators
- The @FacesValidator Annotation
- Validating Multiple Inputs
- JSR-303 Support: “Bean Validation”
- Resources
- Resource Libraries
- Deploying Images, Scripts, and Stylesheets
- Addressing Resources
- Composites
- Limitations of Custom Tags
- Composite Components
- Encapsulation
- Deploying and Using Composites
- Interface and Implementation
- Impact on the UI Tree
- Attributes
- Retargeting
- Ajax
- What is Ajax?
- The XMLHttpRequest Object
- Ajax and the JSF Lifecycle
- Using <f:ajax>
- execute and render Attributes
- Ajax Listeners
- The JSF JavaScript API
- The JSF JavaScript API
- Trigering Ajax Requests
- Refining <f:ajax> with Callbacks
- onevent and onerror Attributes
- The Ajax Request/Response Process
- Using Hidden Inputs
- Other JavaScript Functions
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