JSF Overview

• Model View Controller
• JSF elements – web.xml and faces-config.xml
• The power of Facelets
  • tile-like composition
  • debugging/error handling
  • custom logic tags and expressions
  • XHTML
• JSF 2.0 – quick summary of features
• Annotations – a review

GUI Components 1

• Component Families
• UIViewRoot and the FacesContext
• The JSF lifecycle
  • GET vs. POST(JSF 2.0)
• Facelets pages
• Output components – text and labels
• Forms
• Formatting output
• Inputting text and passwords
• Messages and severity

Navigation in JSF applications

• Navigation rules and cases via annotations
• Static vs. dynamic actions
• Declaring navigation in faces-config.xml
• JSF Expression Language
  • Comparison to JSP EL
  • Basic syntax
  • Array, Map and List access in JSF EL
  • JSF EL Operators
  • JSF EL Implicit Objects
• Backing Beans
  • The uses of backing beans
  • Declaring managed beans and properties via annotations
    • Managed beans and properties in faces-config.xml
  • Lists and Maps properties in Managed Beans
  • Using the FacesContext
  • Action methods in backing beans
  • Connecting to back-end services
    • business logic
    • persistence

Conversion and Validation

• Conversion and Validation in the JSF Lifecycle
• Implicit and explicit conversion
• Date/Time conversion
• Number conversion
• Standard input validators
• Implementing validation in backing beans
• Displaying conversion/validation error messages
• Custom converters and validators
• Client-side validation

JSF Events

• The phases of JSF
  • Restore View
  • Apply Request Values
  • Process Validations
  • Update Model Values
  • Invoke Application
  • Render Response
• GET vs. POST
  • creating the view tree
  • rendering the existing view tree
• Page actions (JSF 2.0)
• Action Events
  • Action methods and Action Listeners
  • Methods of ActionEvent and UIComponent
• Value Change Events
  • Methods of ValueChangeEvent
• Phase Events
  • Registering a Phase Listener
  • Specifying which requests are handled by the Phase Listener
• Data Model Events

GUI Components 2

• Selecting items from lists
• Checkboxes and radio buttons
• Command Buttons and Command links
• Panel Group and Panel Grid
• Data Tables
  • display-only data tables
  • “interactive” data tables
• Using the component in a JSP

Page composition using Facelets

• Templating
  • creating a Facelets template
  • creating a Facelets client page
  • creating a Facelets content page
• Passing parameters to pages
• Facelets and JSTL
• Facelets composition components
  • defining a composition component
  • using a composition component
  • tips and tricks
• Using other tag libraries
  • taglibs supporting Facelets.