JSF 2.0 Training

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Class Description

Class Overview

Class Goals

• Understand the purpose and scope of the JSF architecture
• Build web applications using JSF's FacesServlet, faces-config.xml, and the JSF request/response lifecycle
• Use Facelets tag libraries to build JSF views
• Use managed beans to encapsulate form handling and server-side presentation logic
• Implement control logic as JSF event listeners or action methods
• Use validators and converters to implement a validation phase for a JSF application
• Build composite UI fragments or custom components using Facelets
• Build Ajax applications with JSF: client-side behaviors and partial requests and responses followed by DOM updates

Class Outline

1. Overview
   1. Java EE and Web Applications
   2. Perspectives: Servlets and JSP
   3. Perspectives: MVC Frameworks
   4. Perspectives: AWT and JFC
   5. JSF Value Proposition
   6. JSF Configuration
   7. Issues with JSP and JSF
   8. Facelets
2. Lifecycle
   1. The JSF Request/Response Cycle
   2. Lifecycle Phases
   3. Phase Listeners
   4. The FacesContext Class
   5. Who Does What
   6. Partial Request Cycles
3. UI Components
   1. The UIComponent Class
   2. Behavioral Interfaces
   3. The Core and HTML Tag Libraries
   4. Relationship to CSS
   5. ID, Client ID, and Label
   6. UISelectItem(s)
   7. Navigating the UI Tree
   8. The binding Attribute
4. Page Navigation
   1. View Selection
   2. Navigation Rules
   3. Implicit Navigation
   4. Problems with POSTback
   5. Post/Redirect/Get
   6. Support for HTTP GET
   7. Conditional Navigation
5. Managed Beans
   1. JavaBeans and JSF
   2. Backing Beans
   3. Configuring Managed Beans
   4. @ManagedBean and Related Annotations
   5. The Unified Expression Language
   6. Value and Method Expressions
   7. Implicit Objects
6. Scopes
   1. Managed-Bean Scopes
   2. Lifecycle Annotations
   3. View Parameters
   4. The Flash
7. Dependency Injection
   1. Managed Properties
   2. Values, Lists, and Maps
   3. Using Dynamic Expressions
   4. Dependencies and Bean Scopes
   5. The @ManagedProperty Annotation
8. Facelets
   1. Migrating from JSP
   2. View Definition Languages
   3. Facelets
   4. Tag Libraries
   5. Writing and Using Custom Tags
9. Events and Listeners
   1. JSF Event Model
   2. Event Types and Timing
   3. Event Queueing
   4. ActionEvent and ActionListener
   5. Action Methods
   6. Connecting Controllers to Beans
   7. ValueChangeEvent and ValueChangeListener
   8. Deferring Event Processing
   9. Limitations of FacesListeners
10. Lists and Tables
    1. Working with Collections
    2. Why We Don't Use <c:anything> <c:anyMore>
    3. <ui:repeat> vs. <c:forEach>
    4. <h:dataTable>
    5. Defining Columns and Facets
    6. One Command Per Row
    7. Reading the Row Number
    8. Pseudo-Maps
    9. Working with Persistent Data
    10. Concurrency and Caching
    11. Limiting the Scope of Queries
    12. Paging
11. Converters
    1. The Converter Interface
    2. Life of a Datum
    3. Standard Converters
    4. Custom Converters
    5. The @FacesConverter Annotation
    6. Timing of Conversion
    7. Representing Persistent Objects by ID
12. Validators
    1. The Validator Interface
    2. Standard Validators
    3. Using Regular Expressions
    4. Producing Error Messages
    5. Message Keys
    6. Presenting Error Messages
    7. Posting Error Messages from Anywhere
    8. Custom Validators
    9. The @FacesValidator Annotation
    10. Validating Multiple Inputs
    11. JSR-303 Support: "Bean Validation"
13. Resources
    1. Resource Libraries
    2. Deploying Images, Scripts, and Stylesheets
    3. Addressing Resources
14. Composites
    1. Limitations of Custom Tags
    2. Composite Components
    3. Encapsulation
    4. Deploying and Using Composites
    5. Interface and Implementation
    6. Impact on the UI Tree
    7. Attributes
    8. Retargeting
15. Ajax
    1. What is Ajax?
    2. The XMLHttpRequest Object
    3. Ajax and the JSF Lifecycle
    4. Using <f:ajax>
    5. execute and render Attributes
    6. Ajax Listeners
16. The JSF JavaScript API
    1. The JSF JavaScript API
    2. Trigering Ajax Requests
    3. Refining <f:ajax> with Callbacks
    4. onevent and onerror Attributes
    5. The Ajax Request/Response Process
    6. Using Hidden Inputs
    7. Other JavaScript Functions

Class Materials

Each student in our Live Online and our Onsite classes receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas is required:

• This course is intended primarily for experienced Java application developers. Page authors, component developers, and others who may have little or no Java experience (but perhaps are stronger on HTML, JavaScript, and JSP) may well find this to be a valuable training experience, though without solid Java skills many of the coding exercises will be difficult to follow.
• Java programming experience is essential to understanding the JSF API as presented here
• General understanding of servlets and JSP is recommended, but not required
• Basic knowledge of XML will be helpful, as will any previous experience with HTML.

Technical Requirements

Our computer technical requirements and setup process is easy, with support just a click away.

• Onsite and Instructor-led Online course technical requirements and setup instructions.
• WebEx system requirements for Instructor-led Online delivery option.