12. The Presentation Tier

SCA does not offer an alternative presentation-tier technology. When it comes to user interfaces, SCA’s mantra is integration. Service tiers built with SCA can be integrated with a variety of client technologies, including Swing and rich-clients built using Adobe Flex, AJAX, and web frameworks, such as Struts and Java Server Faces (JSFs).

Instead of a cursory overview of how SCA integrates with a wide variety of presentation-tier technologies, this chapter focuses on how Java EE web applications are used as front-ends to SCA services. Specifically, we cover how servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs) access SCA services. With this knowledge, it is possible to integrate SCA services with more sophisticated presentation-tier ...

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