Apache Myfaces Trinidad 1.2 A Practical Guide  (English, Paperback, Thomas David)

In today's world, JSF is one of the pivotal technologies for implementing middle- to large-scale web applications. With Trinidad, JSF developers have a powerful open source component framework at their fingertips. This book introduces Apache MyFaces Trinidad, a powerful JSF component framework and combines it with Seam, the next-generation Web Application Framework to achieve the most comprehensive and effective technology for the development of powerful rich-client web applications. In this book, you start out by learning where Trinidad comes from and what its aims are. You will learn how Facelets and Seam are used to get the most out of JSF. In addition, you will also learn the often occurring tag attributes, and, in particular, Trinidad's AJAX technology. You will implement login, authorization, navigation, internationalization, polling, and support for browser issues with the help of these technologies. You will then use Seam-gen for deployment. Next, you will develop a web application example where a series of selected Trinidad components are applied and their capabilities explored. Finally, you will master the Trinidad dialog framework, a key Trinidad technology that allows the application of dialogs.

What you will learn from this book

• Integrate Trinidad with Facelets and Seam to get the most out of JSF
• Tackle web application issues with the help of Seam
• Create a panel-based Trinidad user interface using Trinidad forms and Facelet input components
• Create a wizard based on Trinidad components
• Create pop-up or main browser window dialogs using Trinidad dialog framework
• Work with Trinidad's table technology features including the use of JSF binding
• Get a grip on Trinidad's AJAX technology, or more adequately described, its partial page rendering technique (PPR)
• Deploy your web applications using Seam-gen
• Implement login, authorization, navigation, internationalization, and more
• Master all the major concepts of Trinidad

Approach
The book is a hands-on practical guide that stresses the discussion of code and builds up a sample application that illustrates all the standard UI types covered by Trinidad.

Who this book is written for
This book is written for Java developers who are beginners at JSF and experienced web developers who are looking for an introduction into the world of open source JSF technology.

About The Author
David Thomas is a developer and technical project manager of Java-based web applications, and has well over 10 years of experience in various web technologies. He began writing applications based on the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), HTML and Javascript, with a short Java Applets interlude. The main occupation with Java began when Java took charge of the server. A series of Java Servlet applications were developed using an early, self-built Model-2 controller architecture. Java Server Pages (JSP) took hold for a rather long time and a couple of major, increasingly complex, web applications were developed in combination with Struts. This also included the development of major portal applications in the finance and banking sector. Shortly after Java Server Faces 1.2 (JSF) emerged, began the development of a major JSF web application including the development of a high-level framework based on Apache My Faces Trinidad, Facelets and JBOSS Seam in the area of controlling. This project spawned a couple of sub projects, so development continues up to the present day. This is the author's first book which is highly influenced by the accumulated years of his experience in web technology. Apart from his work and the writing of this book, David Thomas likes to write music, sing his own songs, and accompany them on piano and guitar. Other hobbies of his are going on holidays, reading books, walking, swimming, making tea, and taking trains. Furthermore, he is a firm believer in vegetarianism and the responsibility of each human being for her or his well-being and surroundings—in short, of acting locally while thinking globally.