Agile web development with Spring Faces

Traditional JSF development has gained a reputation for being overly complex and cumbersome. Spring Faces introduces a host of features that improve the development experience and performance of a JSF + Spring application. Attendees will see a real-time demonstration of how Spring Faces makes the JSF experience more productive and reduces the pain of container re-starts and verbose configuration.

This live coding session will show how to quickly prototype a Spring Faces application and utilize the features of Spring Faces that make using JSF and Spring together a more cohesive experience:

• High-level DSL for structuring control logic that utilizes EL and Groovy and is both easy to unit test and fully dynamic and refreshable in-container at runtime.

• Introduction of view and flow scopes that fit more naturally with JSF's stateful model

• Reduction in external configuration with no need for JSF managed- bean or navigation-rule definitions

• Easy-to-introduce client-side validation and Ajax

• Flow-managed persistence contexts that enable true transparent persistence.

• Simplified integration with Spring Security

• Less conceptual disconnect by enabling the Spring programming model throughout the stack ("turtles all the way down")