BOF: JSF in the real world
Abstract
Because of our expertise in online store web-application development, we were asked to develop yet another online storefront application by a company extending its business to online sales. Starting this new project was just about the right time to get started with JSF. Strong of our experience in such missions and outlining the requirements to the client, we soon realized a few pitfalls of the JavaServer Faces technology for such public website development. Stepping through the usual development process we encountered challenges using this new technology. Still we kept on going with it, solving every aspect of the problems coming across. Resulting is a web-application making use of JSF, Spring and Hibernate. We would like to share our experience solving the problems we ran into with JSF developing such a public web-application, like: proper doc-type declaration, templating, EL(c:forEach, c:if tags), search- engine friendly URLs, ... We also show how to make JSF integrate smoothly with the Spring framework and Hibernate ORM. This talk will cover the complete application development cycles as we implemented the solution for our client, showing how Java, using JSF together with other commonly used frameworks, enabled us to deliver a high quality web-application meeting the requirements of such public commercial websites.
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