Chapter 9. Developing with JavaServer Faces Technology

Chapter 7, “Using JavaServer Faces Technology in Web Pages,” and Chapter 8, “Using Converters, Listeners, and Validators,” show how to add components to a page and connect them to server-side objects by using component tags and core tags, as well as how to provide additional functionality to the components through converters, listeners, and validators. Developing a JavaServer Faces application also involves the task of programming the server-side objects: backing beans, converters, event handlers, and validators.

This chapter provides an overview of backing beans and explains how to write methods and properties of backing beans that are used by a JavaServer Faces application. This chapter ...

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