April 2004
Intermediate to advanced
606 pages
20h 4m
English
The sample application used for the examples in the previous chapters is developed with the JSP custom tag libraries defined by JSF, but as I mentioned in Chapter 1, JSF allows you to plug in other presentation layer technologies besides JSP. In this chapter, I sketch out two alternatives: JSF views defined by pure Java code and JSF views defined in XML files tied to pure HTML templates. In a real application, the implementation of these alternative presentation layers must be fleshed out, but this chapter illustrates what’s possible by plugging a few custom classes into the JSF framework.
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