JavaServer Faces News Archive

January 2008

JSFTemplating and Woodstock: Component Authoring Made Easy Frustrated with the complexities of writing a JavaServer Faces component? With the help of the JSFTemplating and Woodstock projects, you can write a component with only two files.

October 2007

Adding a Google Map to a Sample JavaServer Faces Catalog Application In her blog, Carol McDonald demonstrates how to add a map to a sample store catalog application using JAX-WS, JavaServer Faces, and Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0.

September 2007

Sample Application Using JAX-WS, JavaServer Faces, Spring, and Java Persistence APIs on Glassfish This blog demonstrates a catalog Spring bean and the Java Persistence APIs used to implement a catalog service that provides pagination of store items, and JAX-WS to expose this catalog service as a web service.

Sample Application Using JAX-WS, JavaServer Faces, Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, and Java Persistence APIs on Glassfish This sample store catalog application shows how to expose a service as a web service for remote client applications. The example demonstrates a catalog stateless session bean and the Java Persistence APIs used to implement a catalog service that provides pagination of store items, and JAX-WS to expose this catalog service as a web service.

August 2007

Sample Application Using JavaServer Faces Technology, Seam, and Java Persistence APIs on GlassFish Get a look into using the Seam application framework with Java EE technologies.

July 2007

Open-Source Portal Initiative at Sun, Part 5: JavaServer Faces Technology-Based Portlet Bridge The JSF Portlet Bridge Project is developing a JSF portlet integration library with which you can run and deploy JSF technology-based applications as JSR 168-complaint portlets. This article describes its design and binary, the procedure for modifying JSF applications to comply with JSR 168, and the tag library.

Blog: Using JavaServer Faces, Spring 2.0, and Java Persistence APIs in an Application This sample store catalog application demonstrates the usage of JavaServer Faces technology, the new Java Persistence APIs, and Spring 2.0 to implement pagination of data sets.

March 2007

Adding Ajax to JavaServer Faces Technology With Dynamic Faces Learn how to use Dynamic Faces, included in the new Sun Web Developer Pack, to add first-class Ajax support to your JavaServer Faces technology-based application.

JavaServer Faces implementation, version 1.2_04 now available This patch release includes many bug fixes as well as a new feature that provides resource injection support in Tomcat 6 (6.0.9 or later) and Jetty 6 (6.1.2rc0 or later) without requiring extra configuration. Just drop in the JAR files and leverage the resource injections that the container itself supports.

February 2007

Web Developer Resource Center This site showcases all the hardware, software, technologies, support, and training you need for your next-generation web applications. Also visit the new Web Developer Resources for Java EE page.

New version of the Java BluePrints Solutions Catalog The latest Java BluePrints Solutions Catalog Early Access has improved user experience and new content. Read the Release Notes for details and download it now.

New Release of BluePrints Petstore 2.0 A new version of the Java Petstore 2.0 Early Access has been released. This application is designed to show you how build Ajax-enabled Web 2.0 applications on Java EE 5. See the Release Notes for information about the latest updates.

December 2006

JavaServer Faces Technology, Maintenance Release 1 Now Available JavaServer Faces 1.2_03 is the maintenance release of the JavaServer Faces Technology implementation, version 1.2.

August 2006

Using Default Renderers in JavaServer Faces Technology to Add Ajax Functionality to Existing Components Read about how to use JavaServer Faces technology to build a library of reusable components and make your web pages' Ajax functionality available to a large community of users.

JavaServer Faces Technology 1.2_02 Released JavaServer Faces 1.2_02 is the second patch release of the JavaServer Faces Technology implementation, version 1.2.

Transcript of Ask the Experts Session on JavaServer Faces Technology Read the transcript of the recent Ask the Experts session on JavaServer Technology with guests Ed Burns and Roger Kitain, the co-leads of the JavaServer Faces 1.2 Specification.

June 2006

JavaServer Faces Technology 1.2_01 Released This is the first patch release for the 1.2 series of our implementation. The Release Notes detail the issues resolved as well as several new features, such as pluggable serialization and resource injection.

May 2006

Tutorial: How to Include Ajax Functionality in a JavaServer Faces Custom Component Learn how to harness the power of Ajax in your components with some help from the DOJO toolkit.

Learn all about Ajax and the Java Platform Get ahead of the curve and start developing Ajax applications today. This is your source for Java tools, technologies and expert advice.

New Feature: Easily get a particular row in a table of data Jacob Hookum describes this new feature that allows you to easily get a particular row in a data table.

Web Tier to Go With Java EE 5: A Look at Resource Injection Read about the support for annotations by Java web tier technologies and how they can simplify access to resources, environment data, and life-cycle control.

April 2006

Learn How to Build Cool Web Applications with an IDE in 3 Days! With Sun Java Studio Creator, you can quickly build web applications that access databases, EJB components, and web services using GUI and AJAX-enabled components. Check out the new Creator course coming to San Franisco, CA, Atlanta, GA, and Burlington, MA in June.

February 2006

Web Tier to Go With Java EE 5: Summary of New Features in JavaServer Faces 1.2 Technology In this 3rd article of the Web Tier To Go series, we discuss the major new features that JavaServer Faces technology 1.2 brings to the Java EE platform.

Now Available: Proposed Final Draft 2 of the specification Co-spec lead, Ed Burns blogs about the new PFD 2 version of the JavaServer Faces specification and its new implementation, available in build 37 of the GlassFish project.

Implementation of the PFD 2 version of the specification Build 37 of the GlassFish project includes a snapshot implementation of the PFD 2 version of the JavaServer Faces specification.