December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
8h 46m
English
Content preview from Java EE 8 Application Development
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JavaServer Faces
In this chapter, we will cover JavaServer Faces (JSF), the standard component framework of the Java EE platform. Java EE 8 includes JSF 2.3, the latest version of JSF. JSF relies a lot on convention over configuration—if we follow JSF conventions then we don't need to write a lot of configuration. In most cases, we don't need to write any configuration at all. This fact, combined with the fact that web.xml has been optional since Java EE 6, means that, in many cases, we can write complete web applications without having to write a single line of XML.
We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- Facelets
- JSF project stages
- Data validation
- Named beans
- Navigation
- Ajax-enabling JSF applications
- JSF HTML5 support
- Faces ...