Building Web and Ajax Applications with JavaServer Faces 2.1 Training

• 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 2.1 - quick summary of features

• Annotations - a review

• Component Families

• UIViewRoot and the FacesContext

• The JSF lifecycle

• - GET vs. POST (JSF 2.1)

• Facelets pages

• Output components - text and labels

• Forms

• Formatting output

• Inputting text and passwords

• Messages and severity

• 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

• 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 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

• 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 2.1)

• 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

• 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

• New JSF 2.1 components - Date Picker, Tabbed View, Tree and File Upload

• The makeup of a Custom Component

• - JSF 1.1 and 1.2

• - JSF 2.1

• Using the component in a JSP

• Using attributes with a custom tag

• Custom components that provide input

• 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

• XMLHttpRequest

• GET vs. POST requests

• Leveraging Ajax in web applications

• Connecting to the server - ready state and status

• Updating the Document Object Model for the page

• On the client page - jsf.ajax.request( )

• PartialViewContext

• Request and response payloads

• - standardized for compatibility across libraries

• The tag

• Ajax requests in the JSF lifecycle

• RichFaces

• - ajax4jsf tags

• - updating regions

• - Ajax-aware RichFaces components

• ICEfaces

• Ajax-aware library components