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Using Facelets Parameters with Templates in JSF

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One feature of Facelets is the ability to define parameters in your pages that can be used anywhere in the template hierarchy. This post shows you how you can pass parameter between the Facelet template and the client.

JSF Page Templates With Facelets

Andy Gibson Programming

Templating is a very powerful feature for developing web applications with many pages that follow the same layout and design. This article demonstrates how to use facelets to create reusable templates for JSF pages.

Exonerating the JSF Lifecycle

Andy Gibson Articles

One of the many accusations aimed at JSF is the definition and complexity of the JSF Lifecycle. The JSF lifecycle is responsible for processing the page creation and submission and orchestrates the different pieces of the framework. A more thorough description of the process can be found in this article by Rick Hightower. At a […]

Fading in Primefaces Components

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I was trying to fade in a Primefaces panel component that was initially hidden and found it to be somewhat of a struggle. After a bit of googling, the only thing I found out was that I wasn’t the first to come across the problem. Here’s the basic JSF code to use an effect on […]

Comparing JSF Beans, CDI Beans and EJBs

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There’s still a lot of confusion over the difference types of managed beans provided in Java EE 6 with EJBs, CDI beans and JSF managed beans all being available. This article aims to clear up some of the differences between the them and define when to use them.

Announcing CDISource

Andy Gibson Articles

In the last few weeks I have been rather busy working on a new project with Rick Hightower, who is fairly well known for his training and writings on Spring and JSF, and Rob WIlliams who is a blogger known as much for meddling in new technologies (and getting mad at them) as he is […]

Double the speed of (some of) your JSF pages (and dodge bugs too)

Andy Gibson Articles

There was a thread on the JSF LinkedIn group about JSF performance and a number of people complained about the fact that as part of the restore view phase, JSF reconstructs the component tree including binding data to data tables causing unnecessary fetches of data from the database. This article looks at one way of […]

A Little Less Conversation…

Andy Gibson Articles

One thing that I wrote that I haven’t really gotten around to examining and verifying in closer detail and validating my position on is the production of the conversational entity manager in the Knappsack archetypes. This article looks at this and re-evaluates my thinking on the use of conversational contexts in CDI.

Need a Java developer in Pittsburgh?

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If anyone is looking for a good experienced Java, JSF developer in Pittsburgh PA, get in touch. I can be reached through my contact form which goes straight to my email.

Handling missing resources with CDI Events

Andy Gibson Articles

In part 1, we created a simple application that made use of string resource bundles in JSF and in part 2 we extended it by using CDI to inject the resource provider into beans so we can re-use our code for accessing locale specific string based resources.