Posts Tagged 'JSF'

The third chapter is presenting Facelets. Seems to me that it is a better introduction to Facelets than we have seen with Ian’s book.

Facelets

Bart also starts with the JSP vs. Facelets rendering stuff. But, this is much shorter when having a look at the advantages. He continues with the installation/configuration of Facelets for JSF projects. Next is templating, then composite components and finally the overview of the Facelets tags.

The writing is brilliant, because there is no useless information. The ...

The second chapter is a bit like you may know it from my book. It describes the installation and use of important development tools and frameworks.

Getting Started

Bart chose Eclipse and JDeveloper for the IDE descriptions. Both IDE guides let me remember my first steps in JSF development. You do not get dedicated plugins from the vendor, namely Apache, but extensions developed by the community for Eclipse. The support for Trinidad in JDeveloper is more native.

One of the main ...

Another one of those long traveling days right before weekend. I am sitting in the train and have a look at a new book I got from Packt for reviewing: “Apache MyFaces 1.2 Web Application Development” by Bart Kummel. As this book is a pretty new publication I start this review in parallel .

MyFaces implements the JSF standards 1.1 and 1.2. The team is also near a complete JSF 2.0 support. So, we soon will ...