Introduction to Facelets - 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

Advantages of Facelets

What's Facelets ?

Tag Library Support

Unified Expression Language Support

Developing a Simple Facelets Application

Creating a Facelets Application

Developing a Backing Bean

Creating Facelets Views

Configuring the Application

Building, Packaging, Deploying and Running the Application

To Create the Example Facelets Application with NetBeans IDE

To Create the Application

Composite Components

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

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 5

Introduction to Facelets

The term Facelets is used to refer to the JavaServer^TM Faces View Definition Framework, which is a page declaration language that was developed for use with JavaServer Faces technology. As of JavaServer Faces 2.0, Facelets is a part of JavaServer Faces specification and also the preferred presentation technology for building JavaServer Faces based applications.

JavaServer Pages^TM (JSP^TM) technology, previously used as the presentation technology for JavaServer Faces, does not support all of the new features available in JavaServer Faces 2.0. JSP is considered as a deprecated presentation technology for JavaServer Faces 2.0.

The following topics are addressed here:

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