27.5. Google Maps Map Viewer Component
We now complete the AddressBook application by adding functionality to the Look Up Button. When the user clicks this Button, the name in the AutoComplete Text Field is used to search the AddressBook database. We also add a Map Viewer Ajax-enabled JSF component to the page to display a map of the area for the address. A Map Viewer uses the Google Maps API web service to find and display maps. (The details of web services are covered in Chapter 28.) In this example, using the Google Maps API is analogous to making ordinary method calls on a Map Viewer object and its supporting bean in the page bean file. When a contact is found, we display a map of the neighborhood with a Map Marker that points to the location ...
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