JavaServer Faces Programming Course

Course Description

The JavaServer Faces Programming course focuses on the development of web applications using JavaServer Faces (JSF). Topics include an overview of the MVC architecture, UI components, configuration and navigation, user input validation, backing bean development, Expression Language.

Course Objectives

Delegates who complete the JavaServer Faces Programming course will be able to:

• Write web applications using JavaServer Faces.
• Integrate servlets, JSPs, JSF and JavaBeans in a MVC architecture.
• Use JSP version 2.0 Expression Language.

Intended Audience

The JavaServer Faces Programming courses is for experienced Java programmers who need to create, deploy and maintain robust web applications using JavaServer Faces in conjunction with Java servlets, JSPs, custom tags, JSTL, Expression Language and JavaBeans.

Course Prerequisites

Our Java Programming course or equivalent Java programming experience is essential, as well as the Web Development with HTML and CSS course or a good knowledge of basic HTML. The Java Servlets and JSP Programming course is required or a good knowledge of basic JSP.

Please ensure you meet the prerequisites for the JavaServer Faces Programming Course before you attend the course. Read the importance of course prerequisites to understand why this is necessary.

Course Contents

Java-based Web Application Development

Client/server architecture. •  Servlet and JavaServer Pages overview. •  JSP expressions, scriptlets, declarations and directives. •  Custom tags and the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL). •  Overview and benefits of Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture.

JavaServer Faces overview

UI components. •  Renderers. •  Validators. •  Backing beans. •  Convertors. •  Events and listeners. •  Messages. •  Navigation. •  JSF Expression Language. •  The use of IDEs to develop JSF applications.

JSF Navigation and configuration

Page navigation control. •  Navigation rules and navigation cases. •  The faces-config.xml configuration file.

JSF UI components

Standard UI components. •  Component families: column, command, data, form, graphic, input, output, select, message, panel, parameter, viewroot, etc •  Common component properties. •  HTML attributes and pass-through properties. •  Value-binding expressions. •  Facets. •  Writing custom components.

Validating and converting user input

Default and custom error messages. •  Standard JSF validators. •  Creating custom validators. •  Standard and custom converters.

Backing beans/JSF managed beans

Using backing beans to add functionality. •  Managed beans, backing beans and regular JavaBeans. •  Structural requirements of JavaBeans. •  Initializing and referencing beans. •  Associating UI components with backing beans.

Miscellaneous topics

Container-based vs custom security. •  Internationalization and resource bundles. •  Using JSF without JSP. •  Building views with Java and XUL.

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