Take Away: After completion of this course you will be able to

• Create managed beans and configure them in JSF application
• Use navigation rules to decide the navigation flow of the application
• Use JSF tag libraries
• Use event handling mechanism of JSF
• Explain the life cycle of JSF application
• Use standard converters and validators
• Use Facelets and MyFaces libraries

Pre-requisites:

• Experience with Java programming language and knowledge of any RDBMS
• Knowledge of Web Technology Fundamentals, Servlets and JSP

Course Details

Introduction to JSF

• JSF – introduction
• MVC architecture
• Benefits of JSF
• JSF life cycle
• faces-config.xml
• Simple JSF application and its structure

Navigation

• Managing navigation in a JSF application
• Static navigation
• Dynamic navigation

Standard HTML tags

• JSF tag libraries
• HTML Components in JSF
• Input and output tags
• Selection tags
• Command button and link

Conversion and Validation

• Need for data conversion
• Standard converters and their usage
• Standard validators
• Displaying error messages

Facelets and MyFaces

• Facelets
• Introduction to MyFaces and extensions – Tomahawk, Trinidad, Tobago

Managed Beans

• Managed bean and its usage
• Scope of managed bean
• Message bundle and its usage
• Binding components to beans

Expression Language

• Expression language syntax
• Predefined objects

Data Tables

• Data table tag in JSF and its usage
• Display data in tabular format using data table tag

Event Handling

• Event handling mechanism in JSF
• Different types of Events in JSF
• Listeners
• Immediate event