Practical RichFaces

by Max Katz, Ilya Shaikovsky, Exadel Inc

Overview

RichFaces 4 is a component library for JavaServer Faces, and an advanced framework for easily integrating AJAX capabilities into business applications. It lets you quickly develop next-generation web applications based on JSF 2/Ajax.

In this definitive RichFaces 4 book, instead of using JBoss Tools, the author bases all examples on Maven so that any IDE can be used—whether it's NetBeans, Eclipse, JBoss or even Spring.

Practical RichFaces also describes how to best take advantage of RichFaces—the integration of the Ajax4jsf and RichFaces libraries—to create flexible and powerful programs. Assuming some JSF background, it shows how you can radically reduce programming time and effort to create rich AJAX-based applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430234494
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	08/23/2011
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Max Katz is a Senior Systems Engineer and Developer Advocate at Exadel. Max is a well-known speaker appearing at many conferences, webinars, and JUG meetings. Max leads Exadel s RIA and mobile strategy. Part of this role is working as the Developer Advocate for Tiggr Mobile Apps Builder (gotiggr.com), a cloud-based application for building mobile Web and native apps for any device. In addition, Max leads Exadel s open source projects (exadel.org) such as Fiji, Flamingo, and JavaFX Plug-in for Eclipse. Max has been involved with RichFaces since its inception, publishing numerous articles, providing consulting and training, and authoring the book Practical RichFaces (Apress, 2008). Max also co-authored the DZone RichFaces 3 Refcard and the DZone RichFaces 4 Refcard. You can find Max's writings about RIA and mobile technologies on his blog, mkblog.exadel.com, and you can find his thoughts about these topics and others on Twitter at @maxkatz. Max holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis and an MBA from Golden Gate University.

Table of Contents

• The Basics
• Getting Started
• a4j:* Tags, Features and Concepts
• Getting Started with Rich Components
• Rich Input and Select Components
• Rich Panel and Output Components
• Rich Data Iteration Components
• Rich Menu Components
• Rich Tree Components
• Rich Drag-and-Drop Components
• Rich Validation
• Rich Components JavaScript API, Client Functions, and Using jQuery
• Skins
• RichFaces CDK: Building Custom Components