Product Description

The Definitive Guide to Apache MyFaces and Facelets is an ideal reference if youre 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 configurability.

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 (soon to be an Apache project).

About the Author

Zubin Wadia has seven years of experience in JEE and .NET technologies. His experiences 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. In 2005, Zubin designed and deployed an award–winning solution for a criminal justice agency in the government space leveraging next–generation technologies such as Ajax, Hibernate, Spring, BPEL, and, of course, MyFaces. His current focus is on architecting an enterprise–wide Contract Management platform for the NYC Department of Health. Zubin is CTO at ImageWork Technologies, a leading Government Systems Integrator on the East Coast.

Martin Marinschek has eight years of experience in JEE and open source technologies. He is a 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 focused on providing JSF solutions to customers.

Hazem Saleh has four years of experience in JEE and open source technologies. He is a MyFaces committer. He is the initiator of many components in MyFaces Tomahawk sandbox such as CAPTCHA, pdfExport, media, passwordStrength and others. He is also a yui4jsf committer. He is now working for IBM Egypt as a staff engineer.

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.