Helping front-end developers, back-end developers, and architects understand how they can get the most out of JavaServer Faces (JSF), this guide to the new official standard for simplifying Java web development explains what JSF is, how it works, and how it relates to other frameworks and technologies like Struts, Servlets, Portlets, JSP, and JSTL. Also provided is coverage of all the standard components, renderers, converters, and validators, along with advice on how to use them to create solid applications. The building of complete JSF applications is demonstrated with an in-depth case study covering complex user interface layouts, prototyping, and integrating templates with back-end model objects. Also covered are advanced techniques like internationalization, integration with Struts, and extending JSF with custom components, renderers, converters, and validators.

Part 1 Exploring JavaServer Faces
Part 2 Building User Interfaces
Part 3 Developing Application Logic
Part 4 Writing custom components, renderers, validators, and converters
Part 5 Writing custom components, renderres, validaters, and converters: examples

Kito D. Mann is an enterprise architect who has developed applications with a wide variety of technologies on several different platforms. He has consulted with Fortune 500 clients, including Prudential Financial and J. P. Morgan Chase & Company, and was recently the chief architect of an educational application service provider. He is also the founder of JSFCentral.com, a site devoted to the JavaServer Faces community. He lives in Stamford, Connecticut.