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Preface

Part I Introduction

1.  Overview

2.  Using the Tutorial Examples

Part II The Web Tier

3.  Getting Started with Web Applications

4.  Java Servlet Technology

5.  JavaServer Pages Technology

6.  JavaServer Pages Documents

7.  JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library

8.  Custom Tags in JSP Pages

9.  Scripting in JSP Pages

10.  JavaServer Faces Technology

11.  Using JavaServer Faces Technology in JSP Pages

The Example JavaServer Faces Application

Setting Up a Page

Using the Core Tags

Adding UI Components to a Page Using the HTML Component Tags

UI Component Tag Attributes

The id Attribute

The immediate Attribute

The rendered Attribute

The style and styleClass Attributes

The value and binding Attributes

Adding a Form Component

Using Text Components

Rendering a Text Field with the inputText Tag

Rendering a Label with the outputLabel Tag

Rendering a Hyperlink with the outputLink Tag

Displaying a Formatted Message with the outputFormat Tag

Rendering a Password Field with the inputSecret Tag

Using Command Components for Performing Actions and Navigation

Rendering a Button with the commandButton Tag

Rendering a Hyperlink with the commandLink Tag

Using Data-Bound Table Components

Adding Graphics and Images with the graphicImage Tag

Laying Out Components with the UIPanel Component

Rendering Components for Selecting One Value

Displaying a Check Box Using the selectBooleanCheckbox Tag

Displaying a Menu Using the selectOneMenu Tag

Rendering Components for Selecting Multiple Values

The UISelectItem, UISelectItems, and UISelectItemGroup Components

Using the selectItems Tag

Using the selectItem Tag

Displaying Error Messages with the message and messages Tags

Using Localized Data

Loading a Resource Bundle

Referencing Localized Static Data

Referencing Error Messages

Using the Standard Converters

Converting a Component's Value

Using DateTimeConverter

Using NumberConverter

Registering Listeners on Components

Registering a Value-Change Listener on a Component

Registering an Action Listener on a Component

Using the Standard Validators

Validating a Component's Value

Using the LongRangeValidator

Binding Component Values and Instances to External Data Sources

Binding a Component Value to a Property

Binding a Component Value to an Implicit Object

Binding a Component Instance to a Bean Property

Referencing a Backing Bean Method

Referencing a Method That Performs Navigation

Referencing a Method That Handles an Action Event

Referencing a Method That Performs Validation

Referencing a Method That Handles a Value-change Event

Using Custom Objects

Using a Custom Converter

Using a Custom Validator

Using a Custom Component

12.  Developing with JavaServer Faces Technology

13.  Creating Custom UI Components

14.  Configuring JavaServer Faces Applications

15.  Internationalizing and Localizing Web Applications

Part III Web Services

16.  Building Web Services with JAX-WS

17.  Binding between XML Schema and Java Classes

18.  Streaming API for XML

19.  SOAP with Attachments API for Java

Part IV Enterprise Beans

20.  Enterprise Beans

21.  Getting Started with Enterprise Beans

22.  Session Bean Examples

23.  A Message-Driven Bean Example

Part V Persistence

24.  Introduction to the Java Persistence API

25.  Persistence in the Web Tier

26.  Persistence in the EJB Tier

27.  The Java Persistence Query Language

Part VI Services

28.  Introduction to Security in the Java EE Platform

29.  Securing Java EE Applications

30.  Securing Web Applications

31.  The Java Message Service API

32.  Java EE Examples Using the JMS API

33.  Transactions

34.  Resource Connections

35.  Connector Architecture

Part VII Case Studies

36.  The Coffee Break Application

37.  The Duke's Bank Application

Part VIII Appendixes

A.  Java Encoding Schemes

B.  About the Authors

Index

 

Binding Converters, Listeners, and Validators to Backing Bean Properties

As described previously in this chapter, a page author can bind converter, listener, and validator implementations to backing bean properties using the binding attributes of the tags used to register the implementations on components.

This technique has similar advantages to binding component instances to backing bean properties, as described in Binding Component Values and Instances to External Data Sources. In particular, binding a converter, listener, or validator implementation to a backing bean property yields the following benefits:

  • The backing bean can instantiate the implementation instead of allowing the page author to do so.

  • The backing bean can programmatically modify the attributes of the implementation. In the case of a custom implementation, the only other way to modify the attributes outside of the implementation class would be to create a custom tag for it and require the page author to set the attribute values from the page.

Whether you are binding a converter, listener, or validator to a backing bean property, the process is the same for any of the implementations:

  • Nest the converter, listener, or validator tag within an appropriate component tag.

  • Make sure that the backing bean has a property that accepts and returns the converter, listener, or validator implementation class that you want to bind to the property.

  • Reference the backing bean property using a value expression from the binding attribute of the converter, listener, or validator tag.

For example, say that you want to bind the standard DateTime converter to a backing bean property because the application developer wants the backing bean to set the formatting pattern of the user’s input rather than let the page author do it. First, the page author registers the converter onto the component by nesting the convertDateTime tag within the component tag. Then, the page author references the property with the binding attribute of the convertDateTime tag:

<h:inputText value="#{LoginBean.birthDate}">
    <f:convertDateTime binding="#{LoginBean.convertDate}" />
</h:inputText>

The convertDate property would look something like this:

private DateTimeConverter convertDate;
public DateTimeConverter getConvertDate() {
    ...
    return convertDate;
{
public void setConvertDate(DateTimeConverter convertDate) {
    convertDate.setPattern("EEEEEEEE, MMM dd, yyyy");
    this.convertDate = convertDate;
}

See Writing Properties Bound to Converters, Listeners, or Validators for more information on writing backing bean properties for converter, listener, and validator implementations.