JavaServer Faces Programming [Paperback]

Budi Kurniawan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072229837 | ISBN-13: 978-0072229837 | Publication Date: October 30, 2003 | Edition: 1

Explains exciting new JavaServer Faces framework components and then shows you how to put them to work with real-world examples and usable codes. Developers of varying skill levels learn to quickly and easily build Web applications by assembling reusable UI components in a page, connecting these components to an application data source, and wiring client-generated events to server-side event handlers.

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Your one-stop resource for JavaServer Faces programming

Stretch JavaServer Faces to the limit and create professional JSF programs with this guide to the ultimate framework available for rapidly building Java Web applications. After a brief overview of the underlying and related technologies, you'll learn to write and deploy a JSF application, then follow comprehensive tutorials on how to use standard GUI components, input validation, and converters, as well as on how to control page navigation, manage JavaBeans, and write event listeners. Advanced coverage includes writing custom GUI components, extending input validators, providing support for internationalization, and developing a real-world online-store application.

• Review servlets, JSP technologies, JavaBeans, custom tag libraries, and the Model 2 architecture
• Understand the component tree, event-driven programming, input validation, and page navigation
• Write model objects and incorporate GUI components into JSP pages
• Manage page navigation and JavaBeans
• Use standard validators and converters, or write your own custom ones
• Support internationalization and localization
• Edit the elements within Application Configuration files
• Write shorter JSP pages and eliminate the use of scripts
• Build a real-world online store application
• Understand the technical details on how JSF works

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Budi Kurniawan is an IT consultant specializing in Internet and object-oriented programming and has taught both Java and Microsoft technologies. He has written several computer programming books, including How Tomcat Works and Java Web Development with Servlets, JSP, and EJB, Second Edition. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, and is the developer of the Java File Upload component most licensed by Fortune 500 companies.

About the Author

Budi Kurniawan (Sydney, Australia) is an IT consultant specializing in Internet and object-oriented programming and has taught both Java and Microsoft technologies. He is the author of Java for the Web with Servlets, JSP and EJB (New Riders, April 2002), which is currently the No. 1 best-selling servlets/JSP book at amazon.com. Budi is also the developer of the most popular Java Upload bean from BrainySoftware.com, which is licensed by Commerce One and used by major corporations. Budi has written several programming books as well as published articles for more than 10 publications, including prestigious Java magazines, such as Java-Pro, JavaWorld, JavaReport, and O'Reilly's www.onjava.com. Budi is now the weekly contributor for the servlets/JSP section of the online version of JavaPro.

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (October 30, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072229837
• ISBN-13: 978-0072229837
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,236,901 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Out of date. Move on to the next book., May 11, 2004

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Scott Merritt (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: JavaServer Faces Programming (Paperback)

Unfortunately the version of JSF this was written against was using a different naming standard for the taglibs and there are a few other concepts that have changed. Wish I would've bought a different book.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars JavaServer Faces Programming, March 20, 2004

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Steve Bennett - See all my reviews

This review is from: JavaServer Faces Programming (Paperback)

Those wanting to work with the final JSF 1.0 release should wait for a revised version of the book and then go out and buy it as soon as it is available. This book covers the JSF EA4 release and much has changed since then. The author has a clear writing style and does a good job providing a background for JSF (especially the chapter on how the Faces servlet works).

A previous reader mentioned that they received updates to the code for the JSF 1.0 beta release, but the changes to tag names alone between the beta release and JSF 1.0 final mean lots of editing to get the example code to work.

I am looking forward to a revised version of the book updated to the JSF 1.0 release.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Do not buy this book now., April 16, 2004

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electric monk "emonk" (earth, I) - See all my reviews

This review is from: JavaServer Faces Programming (Paperback)

I was suckered into buying this book, as there was no other book on JSF in the store. As the JSF specs have changed considerably, this book is OUTDATED.
But that is not the reason for the rating. The author rehashes the old JSF docs available from Sun in addition to tons of useless code. This is probably the worst part as ALL the examples are TOY (hello world) kind of applications, which gives the impression that the author himself does not quite understand the technology.