Java Server Face From the specification 2.0 JSF sources ● JSF specification 2.0 ● JSF sun tutorials EE6 ● Core Java server face (http://horstmann.com/corejsf/) ● http://jsftutorials.net/ ● JSF Lectures from Pascal URSO (Mcf Nancy) ● JSF Lectures from François Charoy (Mcf Nancy) ● Intro à JSF :
[email protected] ● JSF and ICEFaces (?? anonymous) My Source ?? Overview and motivations ● JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a user interface (UI) framework for Java web applications. It is designed to significantly ease the burden of writing and maintaining applications that run on a Java application server and render their UIs back to a target client. JSF provides ease-of-use in the following ways: ● Makes it easy to construct a UI from a set of reusable UI components ● Simplifies migration of application data to and from the UI ● Helps manage UI state across server requests ● Provides a simple model for wiring client-generated events to server-side application code ● Allows custom UI components to be easily built and re-used Solving pratical problems of the web ● Managing UI component state across request ● Supporting encapsulation of the differences in markup across different browsers and clients ● Supporting form processing (multi-page, more than one per page, and so on) ● Providing a strongly typed event model that allows the application to write server- side handlers (independent of HTTP) for client generated events ● Validating request data and providing appropriate error reporting ● Enabling type conversion when migrating markup values (Strings) to and from application data objects (which are often not Strings) ● Handling error and exceptions, and reporting errors in human-readable form back to the application user ● Handling page-to-page navigation in response to UI events and model interactions.