Re: Pro JSF and Ajax: it's good

[Jonas Jacobi <jo...@oracle.com>]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for those nice words about our book :)

FYI, there was some delay uploading the sample source for the book to 
the Apress website, but that has been solved and the source is now 
available, in case you are interested in downloading it.

Thanks,
Jonas

Enrique Medina wrote:
> Thanks for your suggestion, Steve, as then it will be worth giving it 
> a read ;-)
>
> 2006/2/26, chemeia@gmail.com <ma...@gmail.com> < 
> chemeia@gmail.com <ma...@gmail.com>>:
>
>     My copy of Pro JSF and Ajax showed up on Friday, and I sat down to
>     read it this weekend.  I had put it on preorder, based only on the
>     credibility built up by reading the author's posts on JSF.
>
>     Below is the review I posted on Amazon.  I believe that this book will
>     be on the bookshelf of anyone writing JSF components.  Congrats to
>     Jonas and John on a job well done.
>
>     Steve
>
>     --
>
>     The first round of books on JSF were survey books that attempt to
>     cover all of this complex, sophisticated framework.  Pro JSF and Ajax
>     focuses on one important facet of JSF -- component development -- and
>     does it well.
>
>     It starts with a quick overview of the major architectural elements of
>     JSF, and then quickly moves to building custom components in Chapter
>     2.  The first component built is a simple date entry component;  a
>     second, more sophisticated example is a 'deck' implementation (a deck
>     is a collapsing navigational/browsing UI element).
>
>     The authors then provide a succinct overview of client side rich
>     internet technologies -- Ajax, XUL (supported by Firefox) and HTC
>     (the
>     DHTML behavior language that is supported by Internet Explorer).  They
>     then deploy these technologies to build rich client versions of the
>     date and deck components.
>
>     The book does a good job of bridging the gap between JSF 1.1 and 1.2
>     implementations;  the code in the book targets 1.1, but discusses how
>     implementation would differ in 1.2.
>
>     For someone starting out developing in JSF, I'd recommend this book in
>     combination with the strong survey of JSF in JavaServer Faces by Hans
>     Bergsten.
>
>

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*Jonas Jacobi
Author*: Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components 
<http://apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10044>
*Blog*: http://www.orablogs.com/jjacobi