JavaBeans Components

The JavaBeans components are as follows:

• The RetailPriceList JavaBeans Component

• The ShoppingCart JavaBeans Component

• The OrderConfirmations JavaBeans Component

• The CheckoutFormBean JavaBeans Component

• The CoffeeBreakBean JavaBeans Component

The RetailPriceList JavaBeans Component

RetailPriceList is a list of retail price items. A retail price item contains a coffee name, a wholesale price per pound, a retail price per pound, and a supplier. This data is used for two purposes: it contains the price list presented to the end user and is used by CheckoutFormBean when it constructs the suborders dispatched to coffee suppliers.

RetailPriceList first calls the URLHelper.getEndpointURL method to determine the JAX-WS service endpoint. It then queries the JAX-WS service for a coffee price list. Finally it queries the SAAJ service for a price list. The two price lists are combined and a retail price per pound is determined by adding a markup of 35% to the wholesale prices.

The ShoppingCart JavaBeans Component

ShoppingCart is a list of shopping cart items. A ShoppingCartItem contains a retail price item, the number of pounds of that item, and the total price for that item.

The OrderConfirmations JavaBeans Component

OrderConfirmations is a list of order confirmation objects. An OrderConfirmation contains order and confirmation objects, as discussed in Service Implementation.

The CheckoutFormBean JavaBeans Component

CheckoutFormBean checks the completeness of information entered into checkoutForm. If the information is incomplete, the bean populates error messages, and redisplays checkoutForm with the error messages. If the information is complete, order requests are constructed from the shopping cart and the information supplied to checkoutForm, and these orders are sent to each supplier. As each confirmation is received, an order confirmation is created and added to OrderConfirmations.

Several of the tags on the checkoutForm page have their required attributes set to true. This will cause the implementation to check whether the user enters values in these fields. The tag corresponding to the email component registers a custom validator on the email component, as explained in The checkoutForm Page. The code that performs the validation is the validateEmail method:

public void validateEmail(FacesContext context,
        UIComponent toValidate, Object value) {
    String message = "";
    String email = (String) value;
    if (email.indexOf(’@’) == -1) {
        ((UIInput)toValidate).setValid(false);
        message = CoffeeBreakBean.loadErrorMessage(context,
            CoffeeBreakBean.CB_RESOURCE_BUNDLE_NAME, "EMailError");
        context.addMessage(toValidate.getClientId(context),
            new FacesMessage(message));
    }
}

The CoffeeBreakBean JavaBeans Component

CoffeeBreakBean acts as the backing bean to the JSP pages. See Backing Beans for more information on backing beans. CoffeeBreakBean creates the ShoppingCart object, which defines the model data for the components on the orderForm page that hold the data about each coffee. CoffeeBreakBean also loads the RetailPriceList object. In addition, it provides the methods that are invoked when the buttons on the orderForm and checkoutAck are clicked. For example, the checkout method is invoked when the Checkout button is clicked because the tag corresponding to the Checkout button refers to the checkout method by means of its action attribute:

<h:commandButton id="checkoutLink" value="#{CBMessages.Checkout}"
    action="#{CoffeeBreakBean.checkout}" />

The checkout method returns a String, which the JavaServer Faces page navigation system matches against a set of navigation rules to determine what page to access next. The navigation rules are defined in a separate XML file, described in Resource Configuration.