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JavaServer Faces: The Complete Reference (Complete Reference Series)
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| Part No: | 0072262400 |
| Manufacturer: | McGraw-Hill Osborne Media |
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| Customer Rating: | 3.5 / 5.0 |
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Ideal for the 3+ million Java developers, this fast-paced tutorial offers in-depth coverage of JavaServer Faces (JSF) -- Sun Microsystem's Web application architecture for the future. Co-written by the #1 JSF expert in the Java community, this book offers the most complete resource on JSF available. * Extensive coverage on JSF custom component development * Serves as a thorough introduction to AJAX technology and techniques * Numerous custom JSF component examples including AJAX enabled components provided
| Too much pages, few information | 2010-04-11 | 2 / 5 |
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| Who in the world has the time to waste with non-informative text? The contents of this book could have been condensed in 1/3 of the pages. |
| Cannot use index in Kindle Version | 2009-12-31 | 2 / 5 |
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| Beware - Kindle version has an index (which is more than I can say for other Kindle books I own!), but no page numbers and no links - not very useful in a technical book. Book is very readable and informative... I recommend the content - but am not happy about the index issue. |
| Good book, but not updated | 2009-12-18 | 3 / 5 |
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| In my opinion this is a pretty good book on JSF 1.1. I have learned a lot from it by doing the the examples in the first few chapters. However, the website that the author users, [...], which is needed to use the scroller component is out of date or no longer available. I will have to comment out this portion of the code in order to make this work. |
| Terrible book | 2009-09-28 | 1 / 5 |
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This book is only worth the first 166 pages (Chapter 1 to 8). You could just literally tear off the rest 650 or so pages and save yourself the burden of carrying the weight.
Chapter 1 to 8 provides a brief walk through of some of JSF features. I say brief because the content lacks matter. The author spends too much time and text on stuff that are so obvious and wisely evades concepts that are important and difficult for JSF beginners to grasp. Most of the prose is vague and lacks rigor.
Chapter 10, 11 & 12 that deal with building custom components are very poorly done as well. Again, the author eludes explaining the 'whys' rather writes 'this is what we should code'. This leaves the reader baffled understanding why this needs to be done this way. It would have been easier if the author had explained the custom components, its parts & methods by putting the JSF lifecycle into perspective instead of pages and pages of prose. If you are a copy-paste type you are probably benefitted with this approach but if you want to understand 'how & why this works' it doesn't help at all.
Chapter 13 is about Facelets. Probably the worst part of the book. Pages wasted. No clear explanation on how facelets differ from JSPs, no working examples and a quick & fast-paced (mere 4 or 5 lines of text) run through of facelet features.
Chapter 14 & 15 gives an overview of Localization & Securing JSF applications.
Chapter 16 & rest of the book (~400 pages) is just a printed copy of faces-config DTD and the Tag lib descriptor file. The examples are so terse and hard to understand and of no practical use. The examples at jsf tool box dot com are way better and illustrative.
Also, this book was written for JSF 1.1 and parts of JSF 1.2 were 'injected' into the prose that doesn't fit or go well with the context.
This book doesn't cover the basics well enough. Concepts that deserve rigor and more examples and prose are smartly evaded (or the author lacks the knowledge). You will have to constantly refer to JSF documentation and online resources to fill the gap. If all you need is a printed copy of the JSF Javadoc, its XMLs' DTDs and TLDs, buy this book. I do not recommend this book to anyone at any level. I'm using this book to train my biceps. |
| Excellent Book !! | 2009-08-12 | 5 / 5 |
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| I found this book very useful. Detailed yet not complicated. Weather you are a beginner to JSF or intermediate , this book is really helpful. |
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