Introduction

After teaching RichFaces and JSF for a couple of years, I have realized that many people are using RichFaces (and to some extent JSF) without really understanding the core features and concepts. Without this understanding, you won't be able to fully utilize the framework. After some trial and error, almost everyone gets their application to work in some form eventually; however, they often still don't understand why it works.

That's one of the reasons I wrote this book. This book covers all the most important concepts, features, and components available in RichFaces that you need to know. The book doesn't cover every single component and its attributes, because with more than 100 components today and each having at least 30 attributes, ...

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