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 now available on fine bookstores and Amazon as
of February 25, 2006.
JavaServer Faces (JSF) standardizes the server-side component model for Web
application development but doesn't standardize the presentation layer at the
browser. In a series of articles we are going to look at how JSF can fulfill
new presentation requirements without sacrificing application developer
productivity building Rich Internet Applicat... (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)
Rich Internet Technology Patent?
I thought I had seen it all, but apparently not. Someone has got a patent
approved by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for any type of
Rich Client Technology (patent no. 7,000,180)?!
I first thought it was a hoax (and I still hope it is), but apparently not.
It is going to very interesting to see how this is going to end with all the
BIG playe... (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)