This session explains how you can build attractive, AJAX-enabled applications using JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology without the use of manually-coded JavaScript. After a brief overview of JSF and the JSF programming model, the session explains how component vendors leverage JSF's architecture to build AJAX components, and shows several of AJAX component suites in action. The session ends with a discussion of how JSF will evolve to provide even better AJAX support.
Kito D. Mann is an enterprise architect who has developed applications with a wide variety of technologies on several different platforms. He has been working with Java since its debut in 1995, and has written several articles on Java-related products and technologies. Kito has consulted with Fortune 500 clients, including Prudential Financial and J. P. Morgan Chase & Company, and was recently the chief architect of an educational application service provider. He is also the author of JavaServer Faces in Action (Manning) and the founder of JSFCentral.com, a site devoted to the JavaServer Faces community.
JSR 314 - JavaServer Faces 2.0— JavaServer Faces 2.0 (JSR 314) will bring the best ideas in web application development to the Java EE platform. This presentation by co-spec. lead Ed Burns gives you an overview of what you can expect in the near JSF future.
Ajax with Google Web Toolkit— An introduction to writing applications using the Google Web Toolkit, and an update on recent improvements to GWT. This session will cover GWT basics: Java to JavaScript compilation, JavaScript Native Interface usage, the GWT component model, and GWT-RPC for communication to a server. This will be a beginner level technical presentation.
Interview with Ed Burns at JavaPolis'07— Ed Burns, co-spec lead for JavaServer Faces, gets interviewed at JavaPolis by our JavaPosse friends Dick Wall and Carl Quinn. During this interview Ed takes the opportunity to talk about his new book and of course about.. euh ... JSF
Basics and Concepts of JSF— This session will introduce you to the basics of JSF 1.2 and will explain why JSF is different from other web-frameworks. The concepts of JSF will be shown using the JSF request lifecycle, a short overview of the JSF standard components will complete the picture. Additionally, we'll bring a little light into the jungle of JSF frameworks, add-ons and component libraries and introduce you to the most important ones briefly.
Building web-based 'fat clients' using GWT— This SpringOne session will provide you with an introduction on building web-based, 'fat clients' with GWT. The focus of this session will be on integration between a GWT client and your Spring-managed back end. Bram will also discuss tips and tricks for working with GWT. During this session, Bram will demonstrate how to build a simple GWT client and connect it to an existing Spring-based back end application.
