How to Write Your Own JSF Components
JavaServerTM Faces is a technology that helps to build a user interface based on the components approach. Using UI Components as building blocks simplifies the development, slashes the number of code lines, and allows reusing the same components from one project to the next. What are the components we are speaking about? The Sun reference implementation of JSF provides just a few very common components for Web forms, primitive tags for page layout, and “dataTable” as a way to show the data set. The open source implementations of JSF don’t provide much more. The commercial implementation of GUI Tools for JSF such as WebSphere Application Developer and Java Studio Creator do come with significant additions to the set of components that allows creating interfaces similar to that of Swing applications. However, traditionally, the Web interface lacks all of the richness of thick-client analogs. A customer might have an existing design that is not covered by the set of standard controls. Third-party components vendors will try to crea
Related BooksYou May Also Like
View All
By: Julie Meloni Michael Morrison
By: Ben Knapen, Gera Arts, Yvonne Kleistra, Martijn Klem & Marijke Rem
By: Barbara van Schewick
0 Comments