Seam can act as JSF backing beans and as the glue between our server-tier Session Beans and our web-tier JSF pages. Unfortunately, though, users could easily break our sample application by entering invalid data (for example, entering blank values or non-numeric values into the edit boxes). Seam provides validation tools to help us to make our application more robust and provide feedback to our users. In this article by David Salter, let's look at these tools.

Java™Server Faces (JSF) 2 Expert Group member David Geary wraps up his three-part series on JSF 2's new features. Find out how to use the framework's new event model and built-in support for Ajax to make your reusable components all the more powerful.

GMaps4JSF, a JavaServer Faces (JSF) mashup library, integrates Google Maps with JSF. Using GMaps4JSF, you can construct complex street view panoramas and maps with just a few JSF tags. You can also easily attach different components to the map. This article explains how to configure GMaps4JSF inside JSF 2.0 applications, and includes a brief introduction to JSF 2.0 Ajax. Using the article, learn how you can create a simple mashup application that uses both GMaps4JSF and JSF 2.0 Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax).

JavaServer Faces Flex goal is to provide users capability in creating standard Flex components, part of flexSDK which is open sourced through MPL license, as normal JSF components. So users would create the components as normal JSF components and the project will create the necessary SWC, SWF, and etcetera and link the values of the components back to the managed beans using JSON+JavaScript and ActionScript. This article, which is mainly targeted for JSF developers, will provide an overview of creating a simple multilingual JSF page consisting of JSF Flex tags.

You may know how to hide and display optional JavaServer Faces (JSF) components by using JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in standard JSF components. To do this, you would first need to identify all JSF components and write them into JSF pages. But, that is impossible to do when you are developing a Web page that contains dynamic elements that are unknown until run time. With this article, learn how you can clear old UI components while automatically updating the dynamic elements of a Web page, as well as how to use Java™ code to add new elements and put them into their proper spot on a Web page. You'll also learn how to bind different event handlers to different dynamic elements of a Web page, how to register a listener listening to changes of server-side data to invoke a page refresh, and how to use Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) techniques to refresh only the dynamic parts of the Web page.

In this article you will learn how to customize the look of our finished application to follow the style we like. We will discuss how to change the style of existing skins (using CSS and XCSS) and how to create a new personalized skin starting from the built-in skins that the RichFaces framework offers.

Java™Server Faces (JSF) 2 Expert Group member David Geary begins a new article series offering in-depth coverage of JSF 2 technology. In this installment, you'll learn how to integrate JSF 2's composite components with the framework's support for Ajax development.

In this JSF 2 fu installment, you'll find out how to combine JSF 2 with Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) to implement an Ajaxified wizard. You'll see JSF's templating and Ajax in action, and you'll learn how to use CDI's dependency injection and conversation scope.

This article takes a look under the covers of the <f:ajax> tag and introduces another supporting API that has been added to JSF 2: the component client behavior model. We'll see how client behaviors can be used not just for enabling Ajax, but also for attaching arbitrary client-side functionality to JSF 2 UI components.

Java™Server Faces (JSF) 2 Expert Group member David Geary continues his article series offering in-depth coverage of JSF 2 technology. In this installment, you'll learn how to let page authors add Ajax to your composite components, taking a close look at a powerful — but entirely undocumented — JSF 2.0 tag. And you'll see how to implement a reusable, general-purpose, Ajax-capable icon component in fewer than 25 lines of XML.