Posts Tagged 'Ian Hlavats'

Chapter 3 discusses the first component framework that can be used on top of a JSF reference implementation, like Sun RI or Apache MyFaces.

Apache MyFaces Tomahawk Components

After reading this chapter you will recognize how powerful the JSF components concept really is. Ian presents some pretty cool extensions to the standard JSF tags.

Tomahawk is one of the oldest implementation. So, you will find – without doubt – some interesting stuff in it. Although it uses JavaScript, like the JSCookMenu, you will ...

If you already have experiences in JSF programming you may also had a look at Facelets. Facelets is what makes JSF really usable.

Facelets Components

Ian starts chapter 2 with a little introduction into the history of JSF and why JSP is a worser solution to render JSF pages. Indeed, Facelets is the better alternative, maybe the only one that suits to the ideas of JSF in the end.

You can recognize that Ian has a history in using JSP and this introduction ...

It’s Friday and I’m traveling by train from Switzerland back to Germany to meet the family after a week full of work . I’ve to spend five and a half hour for the travel. So, I have enough time to continue the review of the book.

Indeed I was not able to start the first chapter this week. So, I only had a short look at the introduction that was in parts similar to my book. ...