The Definitive Guide to Apache MyFaces and Facelets

The Definitive Guide to Apache MyFaces and Facelets is an ideal reference if you're looking to develop real–world applications with the open-source lightweight Apache MyFaces and Dojo (the Ajax API). The book focuses less on theory and more on aspects like scalability, design, optimization, and configuration.

This book emphasizes meeting real–world requirements for performance and scalability. It includes lucid code samples that reflect the pattern being described. The “In the Trenches” sections in each chapter give you advice and recommendations based on actual experiences with each pattern. What's more, the “Extreme Extensions” section at the end of each relevant chapter is dedicated to a “freestyle” expression of taking a particular pattern or set of patterns to the max. (This is a great way for you to learn because of the magnification effect.) This is also the first book to embrace the Dojo framework for Ajax.

The four authors bring a unique blend of experience, credibility and end-user perspective to this book.

Zubin Wadia - Ten years experience in JEE and .NET technologies. A wealth of experience with Enterprise Content Management, Workflow, Imaging, Compression and Security allow him to appreciate a powerful framework that offers a high-degree of flexibility and efficiency. Zubin designed and deployed into production one of the most advanced JSF applications in the world today for a Criminal Justice Agency in the Government space. The system supports 1,200 users and leverages next generation technologies such as AJAX, Hibernate, Spring, BPEL and of course MyFaces.

Martin Marinschek - Eleven years experience in JEE and Open Source technologies, MyFaces PMC member and a popular speaker at major open source events such as JavaPolis and ApacheCon. Martin brings dynamism, experience and innovation to the MyFaces project. Martin is the co-CEO of Irian, a fast-growing consulting company focusing on providing JSF solutions to customers.

Hazem Saleh - Seven years of experience in JEE and open source technologies. He is an Apache MyFaces committer and the founder of GMaps4JSF, Mashups4JSF, and MapMySocial. Beside being a book author, Hazem is also an author of many technical articles, a developerWorks contributing author and a technical speaker in both local and international conferences such as JavaOne. Hazem is now working for IBM Egypt as a staff engineer. He is a WebSphere Portal SME and an Application Architect.

Dennis Byrne - Works for ThoughtWorks, a global consultancy with a focus on end-to-end agile software development of mission-critical systems. Dennis is a committer and PMC member for Apache MyFaces. He is also an experienced public speaker and a committer for JBoss JSFUnit.