Customer Reviews

Beginning JSF 2 APIs and JBoss Seam (Expert's Voice in Java)

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The title only says about JSF 2 APIs. But this book does not cover any features of JSF 2. The author wrote book for 1.2 and titled as JSF 2 APIs.

If you are looking at learning JSF from the scratch, then this is a very good book. The code listing with author's comments very clearly explain how each aspect of code impacts behavior. I am comfortable with JSF 1.2 now. But learning the technology was a little uphill. I am sure, had I read this book, it would have been less uphill and would have taken less time to understand what each aspect of code meant.

I read this book to learn about the features what were newly introduced in version 2 of JSF. And it was a dis-appointment on that front. Like a previous reviewer notes, the book was written for JSF 1.2 and then they added a page or two of JSF 2.0 (they make references to composite:interface, @SessionScoped annotation and such which are JSF 2 only features) and called it a JSF 2.0 book. So that is the downside.

If you just started to learn jsf and jboss seam this is for you, everything is explained very clearly. This is a great book especially for those who has experience in other similar technologies and want to learn jsf. You can start writing your projects in a high standard level using this book and in a very short time.

Don't expect to learn much from this book the material is very weak. There are some serious errors in this book. When I tried to replicate the code in the book I started to find a lot errors. I finally gave up trying to do them since it was full of errors. There is no excuse for this since it wasted my time.

I will say it did help me understand how some things work and fill in some gaps for me the only reason I gave it an extra star.

Also don't expect to learn a lot about jsf 2.0.