The Java EE 5 Tutorial, Third Edition: For Sun Java System Application Server Platform

10. Using JavaServer Faces Technology in JSP Pages The page author's responsibility is to design the pages of a JavaServer Faces application. This includes laying out the components on the page and wiring them to backing beans, validators, c...

The Example JavaServer Faces Application The JavaServer Faces technology chapters of this tutorial primarily use a rewritten version of the Duke's Bookstore example to illustrate the basic concepts of JavaServer Faces technology. This version of...

Setting Up a Page A typical JavaServer Faces page includes the following elements: A set of tag library declarations that declare the two JavaServer Faces tag libraries.A view tagA form tag This section tells you how to add these elements to y...

Using the Core Tags The tags included in the JavaServer Faces core tag library are used to perform core actions that are independent of a particular render kit. These tags are listed in Table 101. Table 101. The jsf_core TagsTag CategoriesTagsF...

Adding UI Components to a Page Using the HTML Component Tags The tags defined by the JavaServer Faces standard HTML render kit tag library represent HTML form components and other basic HTML elements. These components display data or accept data f...

Using Localized Data JavaServer Faces applications make use of three different kinds of data that can be localized: Static text, such as labels, alternative text, and tool tipsError messages, such as those displayed when validation of user input ...

Using the Standard Converters The JavaServer Faces implementation provides a set of Converter implementations that you can use to convert component data. For more information on the conceptual details of the conversion model, see Conversion Model ...

Registering Listeners on Components An application developer can implement listeners as classes or as backing bean methods. If a listener is a backing bean method, the page author references the method from either the component's valueChangeList...

Using the Standard Validators JavaServer Faces technology provides a set of standard classes and associated tags that page authors and application developers can use to validate a component's data. Table 107 lists all the standard validator classe...

Binding Component Values and Instances to External Data Sources As explained in Backing Beans (page 304), a component tag can wire its component's data to a back-end data object by doing one of the following: Binding its component's value to a be...

Binding Converters, Listeners, and Validators to Backing Bean Properties As described previously in this chapter, a page author can bind converter, listener, and validator implementations to backing bean properties using the binding attributes o...

Referencing a Backing Bean Method A component tag has a set of attributes for referencing backing bean methods that can perform certain functions for the component associated with the tag. These attributes are summarized in Table 1010. Table 1010...

Using Custom Objects As a page author, you might need to use custom converters, validators, or components packaged with the application on your JSP pages. A custom converter is applied to a component in one of the following ways: Reference the c...