Developing Web Applications with JavaServer Faces

JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a standardized specification for building User Interfaces (UI) for server-side applications. Before JavaServer Faces, developers who built web applications often relied on building HTML user interface components with servlets or JavaServer Pages (JSP pages). This is mainly because HTML user interface components are the lowest common denominator that web browsers support. The implication, of course, is that such web applications do not have rich user interfaces, compared with standalone fat clients, and therefore less functionality and/or poor usability. While applets can be used to develop rich user interfaces, web application developers don’t always know what clients will be accessing the application and/or they may have no access to the client device.

Inside scoop on enterprise java and middleware technologies: Using Hibernate as a Pluggable EJB 3 JPA Provider

Using Hibernate as a Pluggable EJB 3 JPA Provider
EJB 3 supports pluggable persistence contract that allows you to plug-in any persistence provider implementing JPA 1.0 with a container that supports JavaEE 5 / EJB 3 spec. It’s provides choice to users to choose their JPA provider of choice. I thought I would give a spin and check whether this plug-ability story really works and here is the result!

Suporte do Spring 2.0 a JPA - ficou muito bom, ainda mais se usar um pouquinho do Spring-Annotation junto | Urubatan`s Weblog

JSF-Spring 4.0.1 - powered by mindmatters

JSF-Spring provides glue code for comprehensive integration of JSF (JavaServer Faces) and the Spring framework. This is done in a implementation independent way so that it can be used with any JSF implementation.

JSF-Spring 4.0.1 - powered by mindmatters

Put JSF to work - Java World

JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology is a new user interface framework for J2EE applications. It is particularly suited, by design, for use with applications based on the MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture. Numerous articles have introduced JSF. However, most take a highly theoretical approach that doesn’t meet the challenges of real-world enterprise development. Many issues remain unsolved. For example, how does JSF fit into the overall MVC architecture? How does JSF integrate with other Java frameworks? Should business logic exist in the JSF backing beans? How do you handle security in JSF? And most importantly, how do you build a real-world Web application using JSF?