JSF book: Essential JSF, Facelets & JBoss Seam (Covering JSF 1.2)

How to learn JSF, Facelets and JBoss Seam easily?

If you're required to develop an application in JSF but are just learning it (JSF), this can be a daunting task. If you need to learn Facelets and JBoss Seam at the same time, it will quickly become unmanageable. With this book, you will have much better chances of hopping over the hurdles. How?

It has a tutorial style that walks you through in a step-by-step manner.
It is concise. There is no lengthy, abstract description.
Many diagrams are used to show the flow of processing and high level concepts so that you get a whole picture of what's happening.
The first two chapters are freely available on http://www.agileskills2.org. You can judge it yourself. They can be used as tutorials to get you started on JSF.

Products covered in the book

This book covers JSF 1.2 (reference implementation), Facelets 1.2, JBoss Seam 2.0, JBoss RichFaces 3.1, JBoss IDE Tools 2.0, Eclipse Europa for Java EE.

Chapter 1 Getting Started with JSF
Chapter 2 Using Forms
Chapter 3 Validating Input
Chapter 4 Creating an e-Shop
Chapter 5 Building Interactive Pages with AJAX
Chapter 6 Using Facelets
Chapter 7 Providing a Common Layout with Facelets
Chapter 8 Using JBoss Seam
Chapter 9 Supporting Other Languages

A more detailed TOC is here.

Target audience and prerequisites

This book is suitable for those learning how to develop web-based applications with JSF, along with Facelets and JBoss Seam. In order to understand what's in the book, you need to know Java and HTML. However, you do NOT need to know servlet, JSP or Tomcat.

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About the author

Ka Iok Kent Tong is the manager of the IT department of the Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Center. With a Master degree in Computer Science from the New South Wales University, Sydney, Australia and having won the "Macao Programming Competition (Open Category)" in 1992, Mr. Tong has been involved in professional software development, training and project management since 1993. He is the author of several popular books on web technologies including Enjoying Web Development with Wicket and Developing Web Services with Apache Axis.

Contact the author

If you have any comments, please send to freemant2000@yahoo.com.

Errata

Please check the change log. The PDF version and the current print version already include the changes.