http://www.jsf-resources.com JSF tutorials, news, and other useful resources. Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:17:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ed Burns has posted a draft of the JSF 2.0 JSR. I won't re-hash the feature list here, but I do have a few observations. First, I really like the features being proposed, and think they will go a long way in making JSF more useful and more popular. Some people ... http://www.jsf-resources.com/2007/04/03/jsf-20-jsr-draft/ Cagatay Civici has posted an example of how to quickly create a JSF slider component, built off of the scriptaculous slider widget. I like this for a few reasons: 1. It shows off an excellent use of the composition component functionality available in Facelets. 2. It shows how easy it is to ... http://www.jsf-resources.com/2007/03/24/jsf-slider-component/ I've spent a lot of time developing web applications in JavaServer Faces (JSF). Based on interactions with other Java developers (both in person and via the internet), I've come to realize there are a lot of misconceptions regarding JSF, and have attempted to address a few of them here. 1. You ... http://www.jsf-resources.com/2007/03/15/5-jsf-myths/ It was just last night that I posted about wanting better IDE support for JSF applications. This morning, Exadel and JBoss announced a new partnership that will open-source Exadel's Eclipse tools and add much more support for JSF, Seam, EJB3 and more. The new tool will be called "Red Hat ... http://www.jsf-resources.com/2007/03/05/can-jboss-and-exadel-read-minds/ I've been using JSF and JPA/Hibernate for several years now, and really like these technologies, despite a few pain points involved in using them. Seam has solved most of them, except for one big one: IDE Support. I'm not necessarily interested in GUI layout or drag-and-drop support for JSF, but I'm ... http://www.jsf-resources.com/2007/03/04/jsf-ide-support/ JBoss Seam is, at least in my opinion, one of the most exciting web frameworks in the last several years. I've been keeping an eye on some interesting new features that are coming to it shortly, and here is a quick summary: 1) Spring Integration Seam is based on EJB3, which is ... http://www.jsf-resources.com/2007/02/27/jboss-seam-updates/ The very cool Ajax4jsf project now has some excellent integration with the Google Web Toolkit, and Sergery Smirnov has written a tutorial showing how to use the two libraries together. He also states: "The mission of the G4jsf subproject is to shift the perception of the relationship between GWT and JSF ... http://www.jsf-resources.com/2007/02/16/g4jsf/ JSF has excellent i18n support, but sometimes the resource bundle approach won't quite work. What if you need to be able to update content without re-deploying your app? In this short tutorial, I'll show you how to easily implement something similar that uses a database. I'm actually in the process ... http://www.jsf-resources.com/2006/11/11/pulling-internationalized-content-from-a-database/ It is really encouraging to see all of the great new JSF (JavaServer Faces) component libraries. Several new component libraries deal with Ajax - a perfect application of JSF, in my opinion. For one, there is a lot of JavaScript that needs to be abstracted away - such as making ... http://www.jsf-resources.com/2006/11/10/rich-client-faces/ ICEsoft has released a beta of their ICEfaces Community Edition framework. ICEfaces is an ajax framework for JSF, and based on my experience with the alpha version, it is quite good. The one concern I continue to have (which has kept us from implementing it in any big projects yet) is ... http://www.jsf-resources.com/2006/04/14/icefaces-community-edition-beta-released/