Using PrimeFaces to pimp up existing Java Server Faces / JSF 2 Applications

In this tutorial we’re going to modify an existing Java Server Faces / JSF 2 web application by adding rich UI components to the existing layout. Our tool of choice here is the PrimeFaces framework. It offers a wide range of interesting, customizable and (several) Ajax-enabled components that blend very well with JSF1+2 and also a solid documentation that allows a quick integration into existing projects. Project setup For this tutorial we’re going to reuse the web application from my JSF2 Tutorial “Java Server Faces/JSF 2 Tutorial – Step 1: Project setup, Maven and the first Facelet” – the source code is available at GitHub.org. ...

November 14, 2010 · 6 min · 1197 words · Micha Kops

Java Server Faces/JSF 2 Tutorial – Step 1: Project setup, Maven and the first Facelet

In this short tutorial we are going to build a Java Server Faces Web-Application using JSF2.0, Facelets, Maven and Hibernate as ORM Mapper. The goals for this first step are: Setting up the project structure using Maven, defining a frame template/decorator and a registration facelet, creating a managed bean and mapping it’s values to the facelet, adding some basic validation, displaying validation errors and finally adding a navigation structure. In step2 of this tutorial we are going to add persistence using Hibernate, add some security, create a custom UI component and add some AJAX. ...

June 5, 2010 · 9 min · 1841 words · Micha Kops