Developing With JavaServerTM Faces Technology - The Java EE 6 Tutorial, Volume I

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Part I Introduction

2. Using the Tutorial Examples

Part II The Web Tier

3. Getting Started with Web Applications

4. JavaServer^TM Faces Technology

5. Introduction to Facelets

6. Unified Expression Language

7. Using JavaServer^TM Faces Technology in Web Pages

8. Using Converters, Listeners and Validators

9. Developing With JavaServer^TM Faces Technology

Creating a Backing Bean

Using the EL to Reference Backing Beans

Writing Bean Properties

Writing Properties Bound to Component Values

Input and Output Properties

Data Properties

SelectBoolean Properties

SelectMany Properties

SelectOne Properties

SelectItem Properties

SelectItems Properties

Writing Properties Bound to Component Instances

Writing Properties Bound to Converters, Listeners, or Validators

Writing Backing Bean Methods

Writing a Method to Handle Navigation

Writing a Method to Handle an Action Event

Writing a Method to Perform Validation

Writing a Method to Handle a Value-Change Event

Bean Validation

10. Java Servlet Technology

Part III Web Services

11. Introduction to Web Services

12. Building Web Services with JAX-WS

13. Building RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS and Jersey

Part IV Enterprise Beans

14. Enterprise Beans

15. Getting Started with Enterprise Beans

16. Running the Enterprise Bean Examples

Part V Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java^TM EE Platform

17. Introduction to Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java^TM EE Platform

18. Running the Basic Contexts and Dependency Injection Examples

Part VI Persistence

19. Introduction to the Java Persistence API

20. Running the Persistence Examples

21. The Java Persistence Query Language

22. Creating Queries Using the Criteria API

Part VII Security

23. Introduction to Security in the Java EE Platform

24. Getting Started Securing Enterprise Applications

25. Getting Started Securing Web Applications

Part VIII Java^TM EE Supporting Technologies

26. Introduction to Java^TM EE Supporting Technologies

27. Transactions

28. Resource Connections

Chapter 9

Developing With JavaServer^TM Faces Technology

The previous chapters, Chapter 7, Using JavaServer^TM Faces Technology in Web Pages and Chapter 8, Using Converters, Listeners and Validators, show how to add components to a page, connect them to server-side objects using the component tags, and how to provide additional functionality to the components through converters, listeners, and validators. Developing a JavaServer Faces application also involves the task of programming the server-side objects. These objects include backing beans, converters, event handlers, and validators.

This chapter provides an overview of the backing beans, and explains how to write methods and properties of backing beans that are used by a JavaServer Faces application. It also introduces the new bean validation (JSR 303) feature.

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