Java Server Faces Training

NJMVCOpenSource User Group

Required Study Materials:  Java Server Faces in Action

Required Reading: Chapter 2 - JSF Fundamentals

 

The following topics will be discussed at the Chapter 2 meeting.

Discussion Questions:

• What is a JSF Renderer?

• What is a JSF Validator?

• What is a JSF Backing Bean?

• What is a JSF Converter?

• Describe Events and Listeners in Terms of JSF.  What other technologies use similar methodologies?

• What is a JSF message?

• How is navigation controlled in JSF?

• How do the above JSF components relate to each other and interact?

• What is a value-change event?

• What is an action event?

• What is a Dynamic Outcome?

• What is a Data Model Event?

• What is a Phase Event?

• What are the order of events in the JSF request Processing Lifecycle?

• What happens in Restore View?

• What happens in Apply Request Values?

• What happens in Process Validations?

• What happens in Update Model Values?

• What happens in Invoke Application?

• What happens in Render Response?

• What is a client identifier?

• What is a component indentifier?

• How is a naming container used?

• How are referencing identifiers used?

• What is the JSF expression language? How is it used?

• Create a sample JSF expression

• What is an implicit variable?

• How can you use EL with JSF?

 

Questions for Group discussion:

 

How do you plan to use JSF?

How can JSF be integrated with existing technologies?