Core JavaServer™ Faces

Chapter 8. Event Handling

Topics in This Chapter

• “Events and the JSF Life Cycle” on page 306

• “Value Change Events” on page 307

• “Action Events” on page 312

• “Event Listener Tags” on page 318

• “Immediate Components” on page 320

• “Passing Data from the UI to the Server” on page 324

• “Phase Events” on page 328

• “System Events” on page 329

• “Putting It All Together” on page 338

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 ...