This article is based on, and contains excerpts from, the book Pro JSF:
Building Rich Internet Components by Jonas Jacobi and John Fallows, published
by Apress. Book is available on fine bookstores and Amazon.
In our previous article - "Rich Internet Components with JavaServer Faces"
(JDJ, Vol. 10, issue 11) - we discussed how JavaServer Faces can fulfill new
presentation requirements without sacrificing application developer
productivity building Rich Internet Applications (RIA). We discussed how JSF
component writers can utilize technologies, such as AJAX and Mozilla XUL, to
provide application developers with rich, interactive, and reusable
components.
To use AJAX and Mozilla XUL with JSF, component writers have to make sure
to provide any resource files needed by t... (more)
This is our last article in a series of four that have been introducing the
concepts of creating AJAX-enabled JavaServer Faces (JSF) components. In this
article we are going to summarize and encapsulate the concepts that were
introduced in the three previous JDJ articles starting with the "Rich
Internet Components with JavaServer Faces" (Vol. 10, issue 11), and design a
Google-like JDJ I... (more)
A fast-moving Comet is about to impact the Internet. When it hits, it will
wipe away the architecture flaws we have lived with for the past 15 years and
allow a new World Wide Web to evolve.
This new Web will include applications that are instantly on and always on,
applications that are truly multi-user, and applications that go far beyond
today’s “click and wait” Web solutions.
Brace f... (more)
Can a client-side AJAX solution and server-side Faces solution co-exist and
play well together? Or are they each solving a similar problem in a different
and incompatible way? The authors of Pro JSF and Ajax, Jonas Jacobi and
John R. Fallows, will discuss how the JavaServer Faces framework can be used
to embrace AJAX today, while protecting Web applications from radical
re-architecture ... (more)
Long Live Project Trinidad a.k.a ADF Faces!
Well, after roughly 2 years in the public the ADF Faces component library
receives a new name - Project Trinidad. It has been a fantastic ride being
part of one of the most successful and complete JSF component libraries in
the market, and now being part of its new phase feels fantastic!
There are several reasons for changing the name, but the mos... (more)
Jonas Jacobi is co-founder and chief executive officer of Kaazing Corporation. A native of Sweden, Jacobi has worked in the software industry for more than 15 years with a mission to simplify application development. Prior to founding Kaazing, he worked for Oracle for eight years as a Java EE evangelist and product manager responsible for the product management of JavaServer Faces, Oracle ADF Faces, and Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client in the Oracle JDeveloper team. As co-founder and CEO of Kaazing, Jonas sets the company's business and product strategy and oversees all aspects of Kaazing's operations and mission to become the world-wide leader in real-time software. He is co-author of the best-selling book, "Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components," (Apress).
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