Core JavaServer Faces, Second Edition

Chapter 7. Event Handling

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• “Life Cycle Events” on page 268

• “Value Change Events” on page 269

• “Action Events” on page 275

• “Event Listener Tags” on page 285

• “Immediate Components” on page 287

• “Passing Data from the UI to the Server” on page 291

• “Phase Events” on page 295

• “Putting It All Together” on page 303

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Web applications often need to respond to user events, such as selecting items from a menu or clicking a button. For example, you might want to respond to the selection of a country in an address form by changing the locale and reloading the current page to better accommodate your users.

Typically, you register event handlers with components—for example, you might register a value change listener ...