Jean Choi

This article describes the architecture and features of the Web application development tooling in WorkSpace 1.5, how to develop these powerful JSF DataWindow components, and then use them in a JSF Web application, as well as how to integrate Web applications into a Service Oriented Architecture. JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a specification created by the Sun Java Community Process. It specifies a framework for easily creating Web-based applications with an emphasis on server-side components to handle business logic and data retrieval. Using JSF can make it easy to implement sophisticated data-centric Web applications. JSF provides the following: A UI framework of components to describe the definition or behavior of the UI A rendering model of libraries to render the presentation to different markup languages A validation model of libraries to validate user inputs A na... (more)