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10 Tips for Java EE 7 with PrimeFacesMert Çalışkan &Martin FousekSoftware Architect Software Developer
at T2 Yazılım Ltd.at Oracle, NetBeans
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Agenda
Introduction– Java EE 7 & JavaServer Faces 2.2, PrimeFaces, NetBeans IDE
Tour through 10 features of the JSF and PF – Feature overview
– Samples in action
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Java EE 7 – 14 JSRs and 9 MRs, themes:– HTML5
– Developer productivity
– Enterprise demands
JavaServer Faces 2.2 big ticket features:– HTML(5) Friendly Markup
– Faces Flow
– Resource Library Contract
Java EE 7 & JavaServer Faces 2.2
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Open Source Component Library for JSF 2.xJSF 2.2 is supported with PF
version 4.x
Very Lightweight w/ Zero Configuration Plenty of examples in Showcase, extensive
theming, provides mobile components Well documented, user guides, books & etc. Large and active community
PrimeFaces
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Open source IDE Support for Java, PHP, C/C++, Groovy Latest features
– Java SE 7, Java EE 7 and JavaFX
– HTML(5) client side development,CSS preprocessors, JavaSciprt frameworks
– Cordova, FindBugs, VCS improvements
– PHP 5.4 and the newest PHP frameworks
NetBeans IDE
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Sample codes to demonstrate the tips Mavenized projects from Java EE 7 archetype Repository:
github.com/marfous/j1demo-pf
Sample Codes
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HTML(5) Friendly Markup
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HTML(5) Friendly Markup
New namespaces– passthrough elements: http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf (TagDecorator)
– passthrough attributes: http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/passthrough (RenderKit)
Advantages– Getting control over rendered Facelets
– JSF components / JavaScript components / arbitrary mixing
– Write and style pure HTML with benefits of JSF
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Form with usage of HTML friendly markup: validation by Bean Validation API with localized messages, custom Bean Validation annotation, passthrough attributes and elements, usage of jQuery plugin at JSF component.
01-HtmlFriendlyMarkuphttps://github.com/marfous/j1demo-pf
HTML(5) Friendly Markup
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Resource Libraries Contracts
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Resource Libraries Contracts
Theme definitions across one or more web applications Libraries consisting of templates, insertion points, resources Can be bundled directly into Web Application or within .jar library How to choose the used one:
– there is only one option
– static or dynamic view definition
– URL based definition within faces-config
Multi-templating
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Simple Resource Libraries Contracts usage, switching RLCs dynamically using Expression Language and ManagedBean.
02-ResourceLibrariesContractshttps://github.com/marfous/j1demo-pf
Resource Libraries Contracts
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Expression Language 3.0
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Expression Language 3.0
Communication between presentation layer and application logic Deferred or immediate evaluation of expressions Sets and gets data, invokes methods Features
– Standalone ELProcessor
– Concatenation, semicolon and assignments operators
– Static collections
– Collection Operations (aligned with Java SE 8)
– Lambda Expressions (aligned with Java SE 8)
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Examples of Expression Language 3.0 features: standalone EL Processor, operators, static fields, collections, lambdas and collection operations.
03-ExpressionLanguage3https://github.com/marfous/j1demo-pf
Expression Language 3.0
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Prime Time with PrimeFaces Components
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Prime Time with PrimeFaces Components
With 100+ Rich Set of Components Built-in Ajax based on standard JSF 2.0 Ajax APIs Client APIs based on Enterprise theming w/ Theme Roller
With 4.0 – Sentinel We’re introducing cool stuff like,– Client Side Validation
– Dialog Framework
– Tree Drag & Drop
– Deferred Loading and many more…
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Examples on advanced UI components:DataTable, Gmap, AutoComplete, Client Side Validation, Tree Drag and Drop, The Dialog Framework and others.
10-PrimeFacesComponentshttps://github.com/marfous/j1demo-pf
Prime Time with PrimeFaces Components
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In the Jungle of PrimeFaces Themes
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In the Jungle of PrimeFaces Themes
Powered w/ jQueryUI and ThemeRoller CSS FrameworkSkinning and Structural CSS architecture
ThemeRoller provides visual editor to create new themes ~40 themes available by only adding JAR dependency Advanced themes are also available
– Twitter Bootstrap Theme
– Metro UI Theme ($$)
Configuration is done by <context-param> in web.xml
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Theme variations on UI Components
Configuration of theme infrastructure
04-PrimeFacesThemeshttps://github.com/marfous/j1demo-pf
In the Jungle of PrimeFaces Themes
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PrimePush, PrimeUI and PrimeMobile
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PrimePush, PrimeUI and PrimeMobile
PrimePush brings first class support with Atmosphere Framework– WebSockets, long polling, streaming, jsonp
PrimeUI is spin-off from the JSF suite, provides rich javascript widgets– autoComplete, dataTable and many others (~35 components)
PrimeMobile offers UI components for mobile devices, supports for:– powered by jQuery
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PrimePush Checkin Demo w/ PrimeMobile in Action
PrimeUI integrated with REST Services
05-PrimePushUiMobilehttps://github.com/marfous/j1demo-pf
PrimePush, PrimeUI and PrimeMobile
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JSF scaffolding with PrimeFaces
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JSF scaffolding with PrimeFaces
Generation of CRUD skeleton from the database– NetBeans IDE: JSPs or vanilla Facelets
– nbpfcrudgen plugin: Facelets with PrimeFaces
Last feature – NetBeans 7.3.1 generates CDI artifacts Procedure
– Generate entity classes from database
– Generate JSF pages from entities
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CRUD application generation using standard JavaServer Faces templates, generation of PrimeFaces templates.
06-JsfPrimeFacesScaffoldinghttps://github.com/marfous/j1demo-pf
JSF scaffolding with PrimeFaces
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Faces Flows
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Faces Flows
Reusable collection of screens with defined entry and exit points Nodes like switchNode, finalizer, methodCall etc. Derived from proven technologies: Spring WebFlow, ADF Task Flow JSF bound with CDI - @FlowScoped Definition:
– Faces-config configuration file
– Java definition using FlowBuilder (@FlowDefinition)
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Sample wizard using navigation elements of the Faces Flow, flow scope defined bean, Faces Flow component as a plugable library.
07-FacesFlow, 07-FacesFlowLibraryhttps://github.com/marfous/j1demo-pf
Faces Flows
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Annotation based component registration
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Annotation based component registration
Improved FacesComponent interface Eliminates needs for the TLD file CDI capable component
@FacesComponent(createTag = true,
namespace = ... , // implicitly: http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/component
tagName = ...) // implicitly: lowercased class name
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Usage of the tag defined by @FacesComponent without any tag library, CDI binding in the component, Java SE project as a custom tag library.
08-FacesComponent, 08-FacesComponentLibraryhttps://github.com/marfous/j1demo-pf
Annotation based component registration
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File Upload
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File Upload
Servlet 3.0 multipart architecture Standard component with/without AJAX requests For lower JSF versions already available as PrimeFaces component
Prerequisites– Enctype multipart/form-data of the form
– Servlet 3.0
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File Upload of the standard JSF 2.2 and PrimeFaces library in action, with validation of type and size limit.
09-FileUploadhttps://github.com/marfous/j1demo-pf
File Upload
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PrimeFaces Cookbook Over 90 practical recipes to learn PrimeFaces
written by: Oleg Varaksin & Yours Truly
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Useful Links
http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/tutorial/doc/home.htm
http://www.primefaces.org/showcase
http://blog.primefaces.org
https://netbeans.org/kb/trails/java-ee.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nbpfcrudgen
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