Table of Contents



•	Table of Contents
•	Index
•	Reviews
•	Reader Reviews
•	Errata
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JavaServer Faces
By Hans Bergsten

Publisher	: O'Reilly
Pub Date	: April 2004
ISBN	: 0-596-00539-3
Pages	: 606
Slots	: 1.0

About the Examples

Conventions Used in This Book

How to Contact Us

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introducing JavaServer Faces

Section 1.1. What Is JavaServer Faces?

Section 1.2. How Does JSF Compare to Traditional Technologies?

Section 1.3. Where Does JSF Fit in the Big Picture?

Section 1.4. What You Need to Get Started

Chapter 2. JSF Development Process Overview

Section 2.1. Developing an Application with a JSF-Based User Interface

Section 2.2. Developing the Application Backend

Section 2.3. Developing Components and Integration Code

Section 2.4. Developing the User Interface Pages

Chapter 3. Setting Up the JSF Environment

Section 3.1. Installing the Java Software Development Kit

Section 3.2. Installing the Tomcat Server

Section 3.3. Testing Tomcat

Section 3.4. Installing the Book Examples

Section 3.5. Example Web Application Overview

Chapter 4. Servlet and JavaServer Pages Basics

Section 4.1. HTTP

Section 4.2. Web Application Deployment and Runtime Environment

Section 4.3. Servlets, Filters, and Listeners

Section 4.4. JavaServer Pages

Section 4.5. Accessing Application Data

Chapter 5. Developing the Business Logic and Setting Up Authentication

Section 5.1. Sample Application Overview

Section 5.2. Implementing the Business Logic Classes

Section 5.3. Authentication and Authorization

Chapter 6. Creating and Rendering Components

Section 6.1. The Basics

Section 6.2. Binding Components to Model Properties

Section 6.3. Conditionally Render Components

Chapter 7. Validating Input

Section 7.1. Dealing with Syntax Errors in User Input

Section 7.2. Using the Standard Validators

Section 7.3. Defining Custom Error Messages

Section 7.4. Using a Custom Validator

Section 7.5. Other Ways to Validate Input

Chapter 8. Handling Events

Section 8.1. Understanding the JSF Event Model

Section 8.2. Handling Application Backend Events

Section 8.3. Handling User Interface Events

Chapter 9. Controlling Navigation

Section 9.1. Moving Between JSF Views

Section 9.2. Returning a Non-JSF View Response

Section 9.3. Returning a JSF View Response to a Non-JSF Request

Chapter 10. Working with Tabular Data

Section 10.1. Displaying a Read-Only Table

Section 10.2. Processing Row-Specific Events

Section 10.3. Dealing with Large Tables

Section 10.4. Editing Tabular Data

Chapter 11. Internationalization

Section 11.1. Localizing Application Output

Section 11.2. Handling Localized Application Input

Section 11.3. Dealing with Non-Western Languages

Chapter 12. Odds and Ends

Section 12.1. Building a View from Many JSP Files

Section 12.2. Combining JSF Views with Other Content

Section 12.3. Dealing with Struts Applications and JSF

Section 12.4. Programmatically Modifying Components

Section 12.5. Using a PhaseListener

Section 12.6. Debugging and Error Handling Ideas

Chapter 13. Developing Custom Renderers and Other Pluggable Classes

Section 13.1. Developing Custom Renderers

Section 13.2. Using Other Custom Classes

Section 13.3. Packaging Custom Classes

Chapter 14. Developing Custom Components

Section 14.1. Extending an Existing Component

Section 14.2. Developing a New Component from Scratch

Chapter 15. Developing a Custom Presentation Layer

Section 15.1. The ViewHandler Class

Section 15.2. Using Java Classes as Views

Section 15.3. Using Pure HTML Templates with XML View Definition Files

Appendix A. Standard JSF Tag Libraries

Section A.1. JSF Tag Libraries URIs and Default Prefixes

Section A.2. HTML Tag Library Actions

Section A.3. Core Library Actions

Appendix B. JSF Expression Language Reference

Section B.1. Syntax

Section B.2. Variables

Section B.3. Data Types

Section B.4. Expressions and Operators

Appendix C. Standard JSF Components and Render Kits

Section C.1. Component Class Categories

Section C.2. Render-Independent Components

Section C.3. HTML Render Kit Classes

Section C.4. HTML-Specific Component Classes

Section C.5. Request Processing Lifecycle

Appendix D. Infrastructure API Reference

Section D.1. Package javax.faces

Section D.2. Package javax.faces.application

Section D.3. Package javax.faces.context

Section D.4. Package javax.faces.convert

Section D.5. Package javax.faces.el

Section D.6. Package javax.faces.event

Section D.7. Package javax.faces.lifecycle

Section D.8. Package javax.faces.render

Section D.9. Package javax.faces.validator

Section D.10. Package javax.faces.webapp

Section D.11. Identifiers for Standard JSF Messages

Appendix E. JSF Configuration File Reference

<description>, <display-name>, and <icon>

<navigation-rule>

<referenced-bean>

Appendix F. Web Application Structure and Deployment Descriptor Reference

Section F.1. Web Application File Structure

Section F.2. Web Application Deployment Descriptor

Section F.3. Creating a WAR File