Preface

This book will cover all the important aspects (Big Ticket features) involved in developing JSF 2.2 applications. It provides clear instructions for getting the most out of JSF 2.2 and offers many exercises (more than 300 complete applications) to build impressive JSF-based web applications.

We start off with a chapter about Expression Language (EL) and cover the most important aspects of EL 2.2 and EL 3.0. We continue with a comprehensive dissertation about communication in JSF, followed by an exciting chapter about JSF 2.2 scopes. At this point, we bring into discussion most of the JSF artifacts and configurations. Further, we start a suite of very interesting topics, such as HTML5 and AJAX. After that we dissect the JSF view state concept and learn how to deal with this delicate JSF topic. Furthermore, we will discuss in detail about custom components and composite components. After this, we will talk about library contracts (themes) of JSF 2.2 resources. Finally, the last chapter will fortify your knowledge about JSF 2.2 Facelets.