Pro JSF and HTML5: Building Rich Internet Components, Second Edition

Pro JSF and HTML5 shows you how to leverage the full potential of JavaServer Faces (JSF) and HTML5. This book is for Java developers who aspire to build sophisticated, enterprise-grade web experiences with HTML5-enabled JSF. Written by JSF experts and verified by established community figures, this book will serve as your primary resource, helping you build or integrate well-designed HTML5-enabled JSF components into your rich internet applications.

Pro JSF and HTML5 starts by giving you a firm grounding in the design principles of component-based frameworks and the basics of JSF. It then details recent advancements in JSF 2.2 that make it friendlier, faster, and more productive than ever before. And it covers HTML5-enabled components, integration with Java EE7 standards, 3rd party component libraries, security, and performance. The book concludes with a real-world application that puts everything you learned into practice.

In this book you'll learn

• Foundational JSF topics such as the component life cycle, framework architecture, managed beans and CDI, expression language, conversion and validation, JSF events and view parameters.
• Leveraging new features in JSF 2.2 such as Faces Flow, Resource Library Contracts, and Ajax file uploading.
• Developing Advanced HTML5 enabled components in JSF 2.2.
• Creating JSF 2.2 applications that utilize Java EE 7 technologies (CDI, JPA 2.1 and EJB 3.2) for bean management, transaction management and persistence.
• Building advanced real-world JSF applications with considerations for security, performance, and usability.

About the Authors

Hazem Saleh has ten years of experience in Java EE, Portal and Open Source technologies. He worked as a technical consultant for many clients in Europe (Sweden), North America (USA, Canada), South America (Peru), Africa (Egypt, Morocco), and Asia (Qatar, Kuwait, KSA). He is an Apache MyFaces committer and the founder of many open source projects. Besides being the author of the JavaScript Unit Testing book and the co-author of the Definitive guide to Apache MyFaces book, Hazem is also an author of many technical articles, a developerWorks contributing author and a technical speaker in both local and international conferences such as the IBM Regional Technical Exchange in Johannesburg, CON-FESS Vienna and JavaOne (San Francisco, Moscow, and Shanghai). Hazem is now working for IBM Egypt as an advisory software engineer. He is a WebSphere Portal and Web 2.0 SME.

Allan Lykke Christensen is a Senior Technology Manager at the LEGO Group in Denmark where he manages experienced software developers and drives agile practices and software excellence. In the past Allan has run his own software company and been the vice-president of Danish ICT Management, an international consulting firm with focus on ICT in developing economies. At Danish ICT Management he was responsible for daily management of software teams in Uganda, Kenya, Bangladesh and Denmark. In his daily work he was also responsible for project planning and execution. He has been developing and implementing IT projects for more than 14 years. His expertise covers a wide range - he has developed workflow systems, information systems, e-learning tools, knowledge management systems and websites. He has worked as team leader on several major European Commission financed ICT projects in various developing economies. He is the coauthor of The Definitive Guide to Apache MyFaces and Facelets (Apress, 2008) and has made countless presentations and training sessions on software development related topics around the world.