Facelets Essentials: Guide to JavaServer Faces View Definition Framework

by Bruno Aranda, Zubin Wadia

Overview

Facelets is a templating language developed from the ground up with JavaServer Faces in mind. Created in response to the many concerns involving JavaServer Pages (JSP) when building JavaServer Faces (JSF) views, Facelets steps outside of the JSP specification and provides a highly performant, JSF–centric view technology. Facelets' top properties, templating, reuse, and ease of development, allow it to help making JSF a technology suitable for large–scale projects. One of the first things a developer using Facelets finds is that it immediately leads to a reduction in user interface code.

Facelets Essentials, the first book on Facelets, introduces you to its importance, architecture, and relationship to JSF and the Apache MyFaces web framework. Learn to create your first application using the power and flexibility Facelets offers. Then, master and apply its basic and advanced features including Unified Expression Language, templating and reuse, custom tag development, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430210498
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	05/23/2008
Series:	FirstPress
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	84
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Bruno Aranda is an open source enthusiast with more than eight years of experience in Java EE. Having followed the JavaServer Faces technology since its inception, he became committer for the Apache MyFaces project in 2005. Bruno's actual work is at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), creating web applications for the scientific community.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Facelets Error! Bookmark not defined.- Why using Facelets Error! Bookmark not defined.- Creating an application with Facelets Error! Bookmark not defined.-Downloading Facelets Error! Bookmark not defined.- Dependencies Error! Bookmark not defined.- Project Structure Error! Bookmark not defined.- Web Descriptor (web.xml) Error! Bookmark not defined.-Faces Descriptor (faces-config.xml) Error! Bookmark not defined.- Unified Expression Language Error! Bookmark not defined.- Inlining Text Error! Bookmark not defined.- Tag Libraries Error! Bookmark not defined.-Loading the Tag Libraries Error! Bookmark not defined.- The 'jsfc' Attribute Error! Bookmark not defined.- Facelets Templating Error! Bookmark not defined.- Templating and Re-Use Error! Bookmark not defined.- Facelets Tag Reference Error! Bookmark not defined.- Error! Bookmark not defined.- Error! Bookmark not defined.- Error! Bookmark not defined.- Error! Bookmark not defined.- Error! Bookmark not defined.- Error! Bookmark not defined.- Error! Bookmark not defined.- Error! Bookmark not defined.- Error! Bookmark not defined.- Error! Bookmark not defined.- Error! Bookmark not defined.-Creating Composition Components Error! Bookmark not defined.- Custom component: inputTextLabeled Error! Bookmark not defined.- Custom component: simpleColumn Error! Bookmark not defined.-Custom component: scrollableDataTable Error! Bookmark not defined.-Custom component: editableColumn Error! Bookmark not defined.- Re-Using the Custom Tag Library in Different Applications Error! Bookmark not defined.- Using source files from other Jar libraries Error! Bookmark not defined.- Extending Facelets Error! Bookmark not defined.-Facelets Architecture Error! Bookmark not defined.- Custom Tag Development Error! Bookmark not defined.-Metatags Error! Bookmark not defined.-Extending the ViewHandler.