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Fast Track to JavaServer Faces (JSF) : Using JSF to Build J2EE Web AppsUsing Rational Application Developer (RAD) Training in Hermiston, Oregon

This three-day course will get you up to speed with JSF in a very short time.

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What you'll learn

This three-day course will get you up to speed with JSF in a very short time. It includes all the important concepts, as well as numerous hands on labs that will have you building working JSF applications very quickly. It covers all the important architectural concepts, as well as providing practical instruction on how to use the many capabilities of the JSF framework. The course includes a broad coverage of the most important JSF capabilities, including the JSF architecture, working with managed beans, the JSF Expression Language, the JSF core and HTML tag libraries, data tables, validation, and conversion. It also includes overview of advanced technologies, such as using JSF and Ajax. After learning this material, you'll be ready to use JSF to create your own solutions in the most demanding situations.

Prerequisites

Suitable for programmers with some previous experience in working with Java and Object-Oriented (OO) programming.

Course Outline

Session 1: Overview of Java EE and Java Web Applications

Java EE and Web App Overview

Servlet, Servlet Scopes

JSPs, JSP Lifecycle

Custom Tags, Tag Libraries, taglib directive

Model View Controller

Session 2: Getting started with JSF

JSF Overview

Purpose and Goals

JSF Architecture

JSF Views, Managed Beans, Controler, configuration

Downloading and Installing JSF

Your first JSF Application - setup, configuration, deployment

Server setup and use

Session 3: Managed Beans

Defining a Managed Bean

Managed Bean Lifecycle

elements in faces-config.xml

Managed Beans and JSF Forms

Managed Beans as Value Binding Expressions

JSF Expression Language (EL) & the Unified EL (JSF 1.2)

Value Binding Expressions

Method Binding Expressions

Implicit Objects

Session 4: JSF Navigation

configuration issues

and nested elements

How to use the navigation rules

Session 5: The JSF Tag Libraries

JSF Tag Library Overview

JSF Core tags

JSF HTML tags

Using the Most Common Form controls – TextFields, Buttons, Links …

Session 6: h:dataTable

tag and nested tags etc.

Working with collections of type List or array

Table headers and footers, f:facet

Session 7: More about JSF Tags

Using and

Using the h:selectXxx Tags (e.g h:selectManyListbox)

JSF Event Model (Action, Value Change, and Data Model Listeners)

Session 8: JSF Validation

Standard Validators

required, validateDoubleRange, validateLongRange

Creating, configuring, and using Custom Validators

Session 9: JSF Conversion

Standard JSF Converters

convertDateTime, convertNumber - configuration and usage

Custom Converters

Session 10: JSF Lifecycle

Lifecycle Overview

Initial requests and postbacks

Restore View, Apply Request Values, Process Events, Process Validations, Update Model Values, Invoke Application, Render Response

renderResponse() and renderComplete()

Phase listeners

Session 11: Additional Topics

Backing Beans / UIComponents

JSF and CSS

JSF and JavaScript

Localization and Resource Bundles

Ajax4jsf - Using Ajax with JSF

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