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Killer Web apps with JSF 2.0: Ajax
JSF 2 draws from open-source Ajax frameworks to provide built-in Ajax that's simple and easy to use. Come to this session to see how to take advantage of that Ajax to implement killer web apps with JSF 2.0.
When JSF 1 came out in March 2004, the term Ajax had not yet been coined, so JSF 1 did not come with Ajax support. Over the years, several Ajax frameworks were developed for JSF, most notably ICEFaces and Ajax4jsf, both of which were hugely popular.
For JSF 2, the authors of the most popular JSF Ajax frameworks joined the JSF 2 Expert Group, and helped to define JSF 2's built-in Ajax capabilities. JSF 2 Ajax is a simple, but powerful kernel of Ajax functionality that you can use to build rich client user interfaces.
About David Geary
David Geary is the president of Clarity Training, Inc. (corewebdevelopment.com), where he teaches developers to implement web applications using JavaServer Faces (JSF) and the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).
A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces. David's Graphic Java Swing was the best-selling Swing book, and is one of the best-selling Java books of all-time, and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman, is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces.
David was one of a handful of experts on the JSF 1.0 Expert Group (EG) that actively defined the standard Java-based web application framework, and David is currently on the JSF 2 Expert Group, helping to vastly improve JSF in version 2.
Besides serving on the JSF and JSTL Expert Groups, David has contributed to open-source projects and he has written questions for two of Sun's Certification Exams: Web Developer Certification and JavaServer Faces Certification. He invented the Struts Template library which was the precursor to Tiles, a popular framework for composing web pages from JSP fragments, was the 2nd Struts committer and contributed to the Apache Shale project.
David has spoken at more than 100 NFJS symposiums since 2003, and he also speaks at other conferences such as TheServerSide Java Symposium, JavaOne, JavaPolis, and JAOO. David has taught at Java University for the past three years, and is a three-time JavaOne rock star.
