JavaServer Faces

Overview

JavaServer Faces (JSF) includes a set of predefined UI components, an event-driven programming model, and the ability to add third-party components. JSF is designed to be extensible, easy to use, and toolable. This refcard describes the JSF development process, standard JSF tags, the JSF expression language, and the faces-config.xml configuration file.

About the Author

Cay S. Horstmann has written many books on C++, Java and objectoriented development, is the series editor for Core Books at Prentice-Hall and a frequent speaker at computer industry conferences. For four years, Cay was VP and CTO of an Internet startup that went from 3 people in a tiny office to a public company. He is now a computer science professor at San Jose State University. He was elected Java Champion in 2005.

Publications
Core Java, Volume I: Fundamentals, with Gary Cornell, Sun Microsystems Press

Core Java, Volume II: Advanced Features, with Gary Cornell, Sun Microsystems Press

Core JavaServer Faces, with David Geary, Sun Microsystems Press

Big Java, John Wiley & Sons

Java Concepts, John Wiley & Sons

Object-Oriented Design & Patterns, John Wiley & Sons

Big C++, with Tim Budd, John Wiley & Sons

Computing Concepts with C++ Essentials, John Wiley & Sons

Blog
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann

Web site

http://horstmann.com