The document summarizes the Apache MyFaces 1.2 Web Application Development book. The book covers using the Apache MyFaces framework to build Java web applications, including key components like Facelets, Tomahawk, Trinidad, Orchestra, and Extensions Validator. Each chapter is summarized in 1-2 sentences, with topics including templating with Facelets, creating custom components, integrating with backends, managing transactions with Orchestra, and best practices.

1. Apache MyFaces 1.2
Web Application Development
AUTHOR : BART KUMMEL
E-MAIL : BART@BARTKUMMEL.NET
DATE : MARCH 2010
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2. Apache MyFaces 1.2
Web Application Development
Building Java EE web
applications using:
JSF 1.2
Facelets
Apache MyFaces and
sub projects
Focus on reuse and
maintainability
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3. Table of Contents
1. Introduction 8. Integrating with the
2. Getting started Backend
3. Facelets 9. Orchestra
4. Tomahawk 10. Extensions Validator
5. Trinidad – the 11. Best Practices
Basics
6. Advanced Trinidad
7. Trinidad Skinning
and Tuning
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4. 1. Introduction
Introduces the Apache MyFaces project and all
of its sub projects:
Core
Tomahawk
Sandbox
Trinidad
Orchestra
Extensions Validator
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5. 2. Getting Started
Setting up the development environment
Detailed instructions for Eclipse and JDeveloper, as
well as introduction to the MyFaces Maven
archetypes
Setting up the application server
Explaining the common steps that are the same for
all Java EE application servers
Introduction of the example case
Throughout the book an example scenario is used to
work towards a fully functional application when the
book is finished.
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6. 3. Facelets
The book starts out with an introduction to
Facelets
Facelets is also used in all examples in the rest
or the book
Throughout the book we focus on getting the
most out of the combination of Facelets with the
MyFaces products
This makes the book also an excellent resource
to get started with Facelets
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7. 3. Facelets – ToC
Why Facelets?
This chapter starts by discussing why we should use Facelets
instead of JSP in all our projects.
Templating with Facelets
The creation and use of page templates with Facelets is
dicussed
Creating and using composition components
Composition components: create your own JSF components by
combining existing components
Other Facelets topics that are discussed in this chapter:
Using static functions
Using inline texts
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8. 4. Tomahawk – ToC
Extended components
Creating basic data tables
Using advanced data table features
Uploading files
Working with dates and calendars
Extra validators
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9. 5. Trinidad – the Basics – ToC
Creating data tables
Including AJAX-based pagination
Creating input and edit forms
File uploading
Using Trinidad’s hierarchical navigation features
Trinidad has a comprehensive navigation framework
that is covered in this section
Creating layouts for our pages
Using the many Trinidad layout components
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10. 6. Advanced Trinidad – ToC (1/2)
Data visualization
Creating nice, SVG-based charts
Passing on data with page flows
Introducing the page flow scope
Using AJAX and Partial Page Rendering
Trinidad has AJAX embedded in every component
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11. 6. Advanced Trinidad – ToC (2/2)
Creating dialogs
Trinidads powerful dialog framework allows us to
create dialogs easily
We can easily return values from a dialog
Client-side validation and conversion
For the optimal AJAX experience
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12. 7. Trinidad Skinning and Tuning – ToC
Skinning Tuning
Understanding the Accessibility
terminology Performance
Setting up skinning Debugging
Creating a Trinidad Appearance
skin Localization
Extending skins
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13. 8. Integrating with the Backend
This chapter shows how we can integrate our
View layer with a backend.
Only Java EE standard components are used
This chapter is just an introduction so we have a
good basis for chapters 9 and 10
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14. 8. Integrating with the Backend – ToC
The Model-View-Controller architecture
A short recap of the MVC theory
Setting up the Java EE application structure
How to apply MVC on a Java EE application
Preparing a database environment
Implementing the Model
Using the service facade in the View layer
Limitations and problems
The presented aproach has some limitations and
problems. MyFaces can fix this!
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15. 9. MyFaces Orchestra
Managing persistence (database) transactions
is often a difficult task, especially when
transactions have to stay open over multiple UI
page requests
This chapter shows how we can let Orchestra
manage the transactions
Orchestra can guarantee that we have a single
transaction during a conversation
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16. 9. MyFaces Orchestra – ToC
Setting up Orchestra
Using the Orchestra ViewController
Setting up Orchestra conversations
Generating forms with DynaForm
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17. 10: Extensions Validator
This is the first book to cover MyFaces ExtVal
Based on the lastest ExtVal release, that was
released a few days after the book was
published
ExtVal gives us the chance to use JSR 303
Bean Validation without the need for JSF 2.0
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18. 10: Extensions Validator – ToC (1/2)
Basic usage – JPA annotations
ExtVal can create JSF validators based on JPA
annotations in our Model
Complementing JPA annotations
ExtVal has extra annotations if we cannot express
our validation rule in JPA annotations
Applying cross validation
If validation of one field depends on a value in
another field
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19. 10: Extensions Validator – ToC (2/2)
Creating custom error messages
Creating our own validation strategy
This use case is used to show the flexibility and
extendability of ExtVal
Extending ExtVal with add-ons
Using Bean Validation
Instead of JPA or ExtVal annotations, we can also
use Bean Validation (JSR 303) annotations
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20. 10: Extensions Validator
On the website of Packt Publishing, a series of
articles on ExtVal is published:
Apache MyFaces Extensions Validator
Customizing and Extending Apache MyFaces ExtVal
Using Bean Validation (JSR 303) annotations with
Apache MyFaces 1.2
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21. 11: Best Practices – ToC
Preventing direct access to page definitions
Using container-managed security with JSF
Using component bindings wisely
Keeping the state of a component
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22. Apache MyFaces 1.2
Web Application Development
author:
Bart Kummel
isbn:
978-1-847193-25-4
publisher:
Packt Publishing
408 pages,
paperback or e-book
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23. Apache MyFaces 1.2
Web Application Development
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