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What is Java Server Faces (JSF)?
- It is a server side component based user interface framework
- It is used to develop web applications.
- It provides a well defined programming model and consists of rich API and tag libraries.
- It is a Standard of Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE)
- It is based on Model-View-Controller design pattern
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
As we discussed in the above, it is model-view-controller design pattern. To understand more about MVC design pattern, you can watch the following video
Benefits of Java Server Faces
- It provides clean and clear separation between behavior and presentation of web application. We can write business logic and user interface separately.
- Java Server Faces API’s are layered directly on top of the Servlet API.
- Its a standard way of building web app UIs in Java
- Leverage a set of reusable UI components
- It help manage application state for web requests
- It process the form data and add validations, conversions to it.
Third Party JSF UI components
Following are some of the third party JSF UI components
- Open Faces: www.openfaces.org
- Rich Faces: www.richfaces.jboss.org
- Prime Faces: www.primefaces.org
JSF Resources
You can find the official documentation, articles, tutorials on the following links
- Official website for JSF: http://goo.gl/ktMFjL
JSF Books
Following are some of the JSF books available on Amazon, you can purchase for further reading.
Required Software
We need the following software’s and tools to create JSF (Java Server Faces) web applications
- Java Application Server – There are so many application servers available on the internet some of them are Tomcat, Glassfish, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere etc.,
- Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE) – To develop JSF web applications we need Java IDE, some of them are Eclipse, STS, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans etc.,
- JSF JAR files – We need JSF library in order to create JSF web applications
- Database – We need Database to connect JSF web application to perform the database operations, some of the popular databases are MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MSSQL etc.,
Examples
- Hello World Example
- Pass data from one page to another page in JSF
- Create Login Page in JSF
- Read the form data using Managed bean in JSF
- Create and Read Dropdown list in JSF
- Create and Read Dropdown list from Managed Bean in JSF
- Create Radio Button in JSF
- Create and Read Radio button options from Managed Bean
- Create Checkboxes in JSF
- Create and Read Checkbox options from Managed Bean
- Pre-populating the form values in JSF
- JSF Form Validation with Example
- JSF RegEx Validator with Example
- JSF Custom Form Validator with Example
- JSF Display list of objects from Managed Bean
- JSF Datatable ArrayList Example
- JSF Stylesheet Example
- JSF Connection Pool @Resource annotation Example
- JSF Get data from Database
- JSF Save the data to MySQL database
- JSF Delete the data from MySQL database
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