Practical RichFaces, Second Edition

Introduction

We have been involved with JSF and RichFaces for many years now, including teaching JSF and RichFaces courses for many years. From our experience, we have come to realize that many developers are using RichFaces and JSF without understanding the full potential of the technology. Without this understanding, developers can’t fully utilize the framework.

Of course, after a bit of trial and error, almost everyone gets their application to work in some form. However, developers often don’t understand why their particular application works. And, more importantly, developers get frustrated and grow to dislike the technology. That’s an important reason we wrote this second edition of Practical RichFaces—to raise the level of understanding ...