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JavaServer Faces: The Fundamentals

JavaServer Faces: The Fundamentals. Compiled from Sun TechDays workshops (JSF Basics, Web-Tier Codecamp: JavaServer Faces, Java Studio Creator; IBM RAD). JavaServer Faces (JSF). is a “server side user interface component framework for Java™ technology-based web applications”

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JavaServer Faces: The Fundamentals

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  1. JavaServer Faces: The Fundamentals Compiled from Sun TechDays workshops (JSF Basics, Web-Tier Codecamp: JavaServer Faces, Java Studio Creator; IBM RAD)

  2. JavaServer Faces (JSF) • is a “server side user interface component framework for Java™ technology-based web applications” • is a specification and reference implementation for a web application development framework • Components • Events • Validators • Back-end-data integration • is designed to be leveraged by tools • NetBeans, RAD (Rational Application Developer), Eclipse, JDeveloper, etc.

  3. Why JSF? • MVC for web applications • Easy to use • Extensible Component and Rendering architecture • Support for client device independence • Standard • Huge vendor and industry support • Built-in UI component model (unlike JSP and Servlet)

  4. Why JSF? (cont’d) • Offers finer-grained separation of behavior and presentation than JSP • Component-specific event handling • UI elements as stateful objects on the server • UI-component and Web-tier concepts without limiting you to a particular scripting technology or markup language • Can work with any presentation technology including JSP

  5. JSF is a UI Framework for Java WebApplications

  6. JSF Architecture

  7. Important Basic Capabilities • Extensible UI component model • Flexible rendering model • Events-based interaction model (as opposed to the old “request/response” model) • Validation framework • Basic page navigation support • Internationalization • Accessibility

  8. How the JSF Specification Fits In (prior to Facelets)

  9. Facelets • Facelets is a powerful but lightweight page declaration language that is used to build JavaServer Faces views using HTML style templates and to build component trees. • Facelets features include the following: • Use of XHTML for creating web pages • Support for Facelets tag libraries in addition to JavaServer Faces and JSTL tag libraries • Support for the Expression Language (EL) • Templating for components and pages

  10. Facelets (cont’d) • Advantages of Facelets for large-scale development projects include the following: • Support for code reuse through templating and composite components • Functional extensibility of components and other server-side objects through customization • Faster compilation time • Compile-time EL validation • High-performance rendering • In short, the use of Facelets reduces the time and effort that needs to be spent on development and deployment. Source: Java EE 6 Tutorial

  11. JSF Developer Roles

  12. Roles Definition • Page Author • Creates the user interface of a web application • Familiar with markup language(s) to be used • Assembler of prebuilt components • Component Writer • Creates reusable components, renderers, and libraries • Components – Render-independent properties • Renderers – Render-dependent properties

  13. Roles Definition • Application Developer • Creates the server-side functionality of a web application not directly related to the user interface • Business logic components implemented in standard J2EE ways (EJBs, JavaBeans, Connectors) • Persistence tier components implemented in standard J2EE ways (EJBs, JDBC, Connectors) • Model data exposed to user interface via JavaBean programming model • Validator, Converter, Event handler

  14. Roles Definition • Tool Provider • Creates tools to assist page authors, component writers, and application developers • GUI-oriented page development tools • IDEs to facilitate creation of components • Application generators (from high level description) • Web application frameworks that utilize JSF components for their user interface • JSF Implementor • Provides runtime environment to execute JSF webapps J2EE SDK 1.4

  15. Criteria for choosing Struts or JavaServer Faces

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