The Definitive Guide to Jakarta Faces in Jakarta EE 10: Building Java-Based Enterprise Web Applications

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B. Scholtz, A. TijmsThe Definitive Guide to Jakarta Faces in Jakarta EE 10https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7310-4_4

4. Form Components

Bauke Scholtz¹   and Arjan Tijms²

(1)

Willemstad, Curaçao

(2)

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

 

These are the most important components of the standard Jakarta Faces component set. Without them, Jakarta Faces wouldn’t have been very useful in the first place. When using plain HTML elements instead of Jakarta Faces form components, you’d end up polluting the controller class with code to manually apply, convert, and validate submitted values; to update the model with those values; and to figure out the action method to ...