December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
8h 46m
English
Content preview from Java EE 8 Application Development
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Optional faces-config.xml
Legacy J2EE applications suffered from what some have considered to be excessive XML configuration.
Java EE 5 took some measures to reduce XML configuration considerably. Java EE 6 reduced the required configuration even further, making the JSF configuration file, faces-config.xml, optional in JSF 2.0.
In JSF 2.0 and newer versions, JSF managed beans can be configured via the @ManagedBean annotation, obviating the need to configure them in faces-config.xml. Java EE 6 introduced the Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) API, which provides an alternate way of implementing functionality typically implemented with JSF managed beans. As of JSF 2.2, CDI named beans are preferred over JSF managed beans; JSF 2.3 went ...