JSF

This tutorial discusses about Faces Flow which is an addition to Java Server Faces 2.2, included in the Java EE 7 stack. Faces Flow has been inspired by the popular Spring Flow framework and as such it is not intended to be a replacement for the Web application navigation system; rather Faces Flow can be … Read more

This is the second tutorial about creating JSF custom tags. In this one we will show how to create Java based JSF custom tags. Creating a custom Java based JSF tag in the early JSF 1.2 specification required pretty a lot of work and several configuration files to be handled. We will now show how … Read more

In this tutorial we will show how to create JSF custom tags based on content defined in an XHTML page. Creating custom JSF tags can be done either by means of Java classes implementing the UIComponentBase interface or by means of XHTML code fragments. In this tutorial we will show the latter option. Creating a … Read more

In this tutorial we will compare the available options for storing Object data into a Web application, showing at first the core JSF 2 scopes and the extension provided by CDI. Core JSF scopes JSF 2.0 specification defines the following scope scopes for storing data: @RequestScoped @ViewScoped @SessionScoped @ApplicationScoped @CustomScope Using the Request scope is … Read more

The simplest (and most powerful) way to pass parameters is via JSF method expression which has been introduced in JSF 2.0 and EL 2.2. So this is only possible if you’re running on a Servlet 3.0 / EL 2.2 capable container like Tomcat 7, Glassfish 3, JBoss AS 6, etc and your web.xml is been … Read more

Today you can find many articles showing Java EE 6 examples and new features. However it’s missing a complete tutorial showing how to design and deploy a sample Java EE 6 application on JBoss AS 6. While it’s not intended to be the “the right” way to design Java EE 6 applications, this tutorial can … Read more