Advanced JSF Training: Creating JavaServer Faces Components and Ajax Applications

Course Number: JSF-101
GSA/Previous Course Number: 218
Duration: 2 days
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Advanced JSF Training Overview

Accelebrate's Advanced JSF training teaches attendees how to build custom JSF components and Ajax applications.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/java.htm.

Advanced JSF Training Prerequisites

Prior experience with JSF is required. Our Introduction to JavaServer Faces training class meets this requirement and could be delivered for you in the same week as this class.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 20 minutes.

Advanced JSF Training Materials

All JSF training students receive a copy of Prentice-Hall's Core JavaServer Faces, related courseware, and copies of all files developed during the class.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Java™ SE SDK 1.5, 1.6 or later
Optionally, the Eclipse Web Tools platform (free download from http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/)
Lab files that Accelebrate would provide (which include Tomcat, a database, code files, and more)
Modern web browser

Note: This outline presumes that Apache Tomcat will be used as the platform for this class. However, all code taught will run on any Java platform, including SunONE, BEA WebLogic, and IBM WebSphere. If preferred, these platforms can be used as the test servers during class.

Advanced JSF Training Objectives

Use custom JSF component libraries.
Develop custom JSF components for a variety of purposes, including composite components.
Use custom JSF components to encapsulate and deliver JavaScript content.
Develop Ajax applications using JSF and DWR.
Develop Ajax applications using RichFaces.

Advanced JSF Training Outline

Using Custom Components

Component Libraries
Deployment Model
Apache Tomahawk

Developing Custom Components

The Components of a Component
Custom Tags and CSS vs. Custom Components
The UIComponent Class
The Renderer Class
Encoding and Decoding
The UIComponentELTag Class
Using the Default Renderer
State-Saving Concerns

Composites

Composite Components
JSF Composite vs. HTML Composite
Composite vs. Shell
Creating, Configuring, and Assembling

Delivering JavaScript

Client-Side Scripting
HTML Events and the HTML DOM
Encoding Scripts
JSF and Script Libraries
Encoding Scripts Once
Encoding Scripts Uniquely

Ajax Applications

What is Ajax?
Request Formats
Means of Triggering HTTP Requests
Asynchronous Response Handling
Direct Web Remoting
Server-Side Strategies
Invoking Managed Beans

Ajax Components

Server-Side Strategies: Another Look
Model/View/Controller for Ajax
JSF Lifecycle and Partial Page Rendering
RichFaces
Triggering Ajax Requests
Re-Rendering
Input Validation
Customizing Custom Components

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