Build highly interactive Ajax-enabled applications with JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2, the standard web application framework for Java EE. JSF 2 incorporates time-saving features, such as convention-over-configuration, built-in Ajax, templating, simple custom UI component development, and several powerful third-party Ajax component suites. JSF applications can be integrated seamlessly with Spring and/or Java EE. This course covers the key features of JavaServer Faces and walks you through building different aspects of a JSF application. You will also learn how to take advantage of rich JSF component suites such as ICEfaces and RichFaces.

After successfully completing this course, students will be able to:

• Utilize component-oriented development techniques
• Work with standard JSF components
• Utilize JSF’s integrated Ajax support
• Develop custom components, validators, and converters
• Work with third-party component suites such as RichFaces and ICEfaces
• Develop pages and templates with Facelets
• Work with backing beans, annotations, enhanced navigation, and other features
• Put it all together in a working JSF application

Day 1

• Course Intro
• Introduction to JSF
• LAB
• Exploring the JSF Ecosystem
• Using Facelets
• LAB
• Building Applications Part 1: Managed Beans, EL and Exception Handling

Day 2

• Building Applications Part 1: Managed Beans, EL AND Exception Handling (continued)
• LAB
• Building Applications Part 2: Events and Navigation
• LAB
• Exploring the Standard Components
• Writing Custom UI Components

Day 3

• Writing Custom UI Components (continued)
• LAB
• Internationalisation, Validators and Converters
• LAB
• Working with third-party components
• LAB
• Summary and Future Directions

Additional Modules

• Behind the Scenes
• JSF Application Architecture
• Testing JSF Applications
• Best Practices
• Testing JSF and Spring Applications
• Integrating JSF with Spring