About the Examples

This book contains many examples that demonstrate useful techniques for dealing with requirements common to most JSF-based web applications. The code for all the examples is contained within the text and is also available for download from the O'Reilly web site at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jsvrfaces/. You can also download the example code, ask me questions, and more at http://www.hansbergsten.com/.

The examples use features of the Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 specifications, even though the JSF specification depends on the previous versions of these specifications: Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2. I use the latest specifications, released in November 2003, because they make life so much easier in many areas, and I expect them to be supported by the major Java web containers by the time you read this book (or shortly thereafter). All examples have been tested with the official JSF 1.0 reference implementation on Windows ME and Linux (Red Hat Linux 7.2) using Sun's Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition (1.4.2) and Tomcat 5.0.18.