JBoss RichFaces is a rich component library for JavaServer Faces and an AJAX framework that allows easy integration of Ajax capabilities into complex business applications. Do you wish to eliminate the time involved in writing JavaScript code and managing JavaScript-compatibility between browsers to build an Ajax web application quickly?

This book goes beyond the documentation to teach you how to do that. It will show you how to get the most out of JBoss RichFaces by explaining the key components and how you can use them to enhance your applications. Most importantly, you will learn how to integrate Ajax into your applications without using JavaScript, but only standard JSF components. You will learn how to create and customize your own components and add them to your new or existing applications.

First, the book introduces you to JBoss RichFaces and its components. It uses many examples of Ajax components which, among others, include: Calendar, Data Table, ToolTip, ToolBar, Menu, RichEditor, and Drag ‘n’ Drop. All these components will help you create the web site you always imagined. Key aspects of the RichFaces framework such as the Ajax framework, skinnability, and Component Development Kit (CDK) will help you customize the look of your web application. As you progress through the book, you will see a sample application that shows you how to build an advanced contact manager. You’re also going to be amazed to know about the advanced topics you will learn such as developing new components, new skins, optimizing a web application, inserting components dynamically using Java instead of XHTML, and using JavaScript to manage components. This book is more than a reference with component example code: it’s a manual that will guide you, step by step, through the development of a real Ajax JSF web application.

What This Book Covers

• Chapter 1: What is RichFaces covers the aims of the RichFaces framework, its components, and what you can do by using it in a web application.
• Chapter 2: Getting Ready explains how to configure your environment by creating a simple project using the seam-gen tool, adding support to Seam and Facelets, and the manual configuration for the RichFaces libraries. We will understand the IDE that we can use while developing with the framework.
• In Chapter 3: First Steps, you will learn to build Ajax applications by developing a simple example, the basics of RichFaces step by step, from creating the project to editing the code, using very important components and their Ajax properties.
• Chapter 4: The Application covers how to create the basics of our project by having a look at the side technologies we might know, in order to build good applications. It will cover templating with Facelets, JBoss Seam authentication, and customization of the entities.
• Chapter 5: Making the Application Structure explains us how to create the login and registration system of the website. We’ll look at all the features that a real application might have.
• In Chapter 6: Making the Contacts List and Detail, we will develop the core feature of our application—contact management. We’ll learn about Ajax interaction and containers, and about new Ajax components that RichFaces offers.
• Chapter 7: Finishing the Application explains how to finish building the application using the RichFaces components, and about customizing them.
• In Chapter 8: Skin Customization, we’ll see all the powerful customization capabilities that the RichFaces framework offers.
• Chapter 9: Creating a New plug ‘n’ skin covers how to create, customize, and package and deploy a new pluggable skin.
• Chapter 10: Advanced Techniques explains you how to use and implement pushing, partial updates, and session expiration handling in order to develop advanced applications.
• In Chapter 11: Component Development Kit, we’ll see how to start a project in order to develop a simple JSF Ajax component in a simple and effective way using the features the CDK offers.
• Appendix: RichFaces Components Overview covers a list of all the components of RichFaces with their functionalities.

Example chapter
You can download a sample chapter, Chapter 8: Skin Customization, by clicking here.

Where to buy it
You can buy JBoss RichFaces 3.3 from the Packt Publishing website.

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Thank you!

Demetrio

As you know yesterday Google enabled Java as the second language on Google App.

I registered to the test version and I want to try to run JSF…I started with Jsf 1.1 and it worked perfectly!!

I tried the JSF example that come with JBoss Tools, try it at:

http://2.latest.demetrio81280.appspot.com/pages/inputUserName.jsf

If you want to try it, these are the simple steps:

1. Register to Google App (they says just 10000 ppl initially!)
2. Download and install Google App plugin for Eclipse
3. Create a Google App project with Eclipse
4. Create a JSF 1.1 project using the template using JBoss Tools Eclipse plugin (or make your own JSF demo)
5. Copy all the libraries of the JSF demo into the war/WEB-INF/lib/ directory of Google App project
6. Copy the src java file of the JSF demo into the src directory of Google App project
7. Copy the WebContent java file of the JSF demo into the war directory of Google App project
8. Add this string:
   <sessions-enabled>true</sessions-enabled>
   on the appengine-web.xml file to enable the session
9. If you used the JSF 1.1 JBoss Tools template you have to make the User bean serializable just adding implements Serializable to the User class

Done! You can now deploy and test it!!

When I’ll have more time I want to try JSF 1.2 and RichFaces, I think there will be more problems trying to run JBoss Seam (we’ll see! )

UPDATE: Facelets works perfectly in JSF 1.1, JSF 1.2 has a problem during startup (see here)

Demetrio

http://demetrio812.blogspot.com/

Thanks!

Demetrio

Evviva il rispetto dell’ambiente!

Demetrio

In realtà illimitato in inghilterra significa 500MB e quindi questi porci dopo 500MB hanno iniziato a scalarmi il credito senza neppure informarmi, risultato: 26 sterline buttate per qualche mega (al modifico costo di £ 3 al mega!)…cercando una soluzione controllo i minuti gratis per chiamare all’estero che, dato il mio piano avrei dovuto accumulare ad ogni ricarica, e la voce mi dice £ 0!!!!!!

Chiamo l’assistenza (ogni chiamata costa £ 0,25) e mi dicono che ho consumato i 100 minuti iniziali (impossibile, maria chiara che parla più di me ha ancora più di 50 minuti…) e che gli altri me li accreditano il 12 settembre!!!

Grazie O2 ma io partirò il 6!!

Ovviamente vi chiederete perché non sono andato al negozio, in realtà ci sono andato ma quelli ne sanno meno di me e l’unica cosa che hanno saputo fare è comporre il numero dell’assistenza!!! 

Senza parole…

Dem

P.S.: comunque oggi sono stato al carnevale di Notting Hill e ho fatto qualche bella foto, posterò una galleria presto!!

ecco il risultato:

Io, Landre e Mc abbiamo preso le audio guide, il tirchiazzo di Romanetto si sentiva la musica con l’ipod!

Giorgio e Daniela sono arrivati in ritardo e ci siamo beccati fuori!

All’interno ha suonato un pianista e due devastate si sono pure messe a ballare! (posterò foto più dettagliate)

Ora siamo in un pub a “cercare di mangiare” dato che tutte le cucine sono chiuse!

Dem

Vedi foto…

Da veri nerd non potevamo non andare all’Apple Store di Londra!

(E ovviamente Andrea ha beccato via Internet dall’Apple Store)

P.S.: la foto e’ stata fatta con un iMac 20″ utilizzando Photo Booth!