Using JavaServer Faces Technology in Web Pages - The Java EE 6 Tutorial, Volume I

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Part I Introduction

2. Using the Tutorial Examples

Part II The Web Tier

3. Getting Started with Web Applications

4. Java Servlet Technology

5. JavaServer Faces Technology

6. Introduction to Facelets

7. Using JavaServer Faces Technology in Web Pages

Setting Up a Page

Using the Core Tags

Adding UI Components to a Page Using the HTML Component Tags

UI Component Tag Attributes

The id Attribute

The immediate Attribute

The rendered Attribute

The style and styleClass Attributes

The value and binding Attributes

Adding a Form Component

Using Text Components

Rendering a Text Field With the inputText Tag

Rendering a Label With the outputLabel Tag

Rendering a Hyperlink With the outputLink Tag

Displaying a Formatted Message With the outputFormat Tag

Rendering a Password Field With the inputSecret Tag

Using Command Components for Performing Actions and Navigation

Rendering a Button With the commandButton Tag

Rendering a Hyperlink With the commandLink Tag

Using Data-Bound Table Components

Adding Graphics and Images With the graphicImage Tag

Laying Out Components With the UIPanel Component

Rendering Components for Selecting One Value

Displaying a Check Box Using the selectBooleanCheckbox Tag

Displaying a Menu Using the selectOneMenu Tag

Rendering Components for Selecting Multiple Values

The UISelectItem, UISelectItems, and UISelectItemGroup Components

Using the selectItems Tag

Using the selectItem Tag

Displaying Error Messages With the message and messages Tags

Composite Components

Bookmarkability

View Parameters

Using the Standard Converters

Converting a Component's Value

Using DateTimeConverter

Using NumberConverter

Registering Listeners on Components

Registering a Value-Change Listener on a Component

Registering an Action Listener on a Component

Using the Standard Validators

Validating a Component's Value

Using the LongRangeValidator

Binding Component Values and Instances to External Data Sources

Binding a Component Value to a Property

Binding a Component Value to an Implicit Object

Binding a Component Instance to a Bean Property

Binding Converters, Listeners, and Validators to Backing Bean Properties

Referencing a Backing Bean Method

Referencing a Method That Performs Navigation

Referencing a Method That Handles an Action Event

Referencing a Method That Performs Validation

Referencing a Method That Handles a Value-Change Event

8. Developing with JavaServer Faces Technology

9. Configuring JavaServer Faces Applications

Part III Web Services

10. Introduction to Web Services

11. Building Web Services with JAX-WS

12. Building RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS and Jersey

Part IV Enterprise Beans

13. Enterprise Beans

14. Getting Started with Enterprise Beans

15. Running the Enterprise Bean Examples

Part V Persistence

16. Introduction to the Java Persistence API

17. Running the Persistence Examples

18. The Java Persistence Query Language

Part VI Security

19. Introduction to Security in the Java EE Platform

20. Using Java EE Security

21. Securing Java EE Applications

22. Securing Web Applications

Part VII Java EE Supporting Technologies

23. Introduction to Java EE Supporting Technologies

24. Transactions

25. Resource Connections

Chapter 7

Using JavaServer Faces Technology in Web Pages

The page author’s responsibility is to design the pages of a JavaServer Faces application. This includes laying out the components on the page and wiring them to backing beans, validators, converters, and other server-side objects associated with the page. Page authors use the JavaServer Faces tags to perform the following tasks:

Lay out standard UI components on a page
Reference localized messages
Register converters, validators, and listeners on components
Bind components and their values to server-side objects
Reference backing bean methods that perform navigation processing, handle events, and perform validation

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