Introduction

This blog is dedicated to exploring the development of applications using JSF as the central component for the View portion of the app.  As we walk through the development of applications, we will focus on Open Standards and Open Source Projects for implementation.  I will attempt to go beyond the typical tutorial / example by giving a complete solution that involves more then just the component we are exploring. I welcome any requests for additional examples keeping in mind I will only focus on free, "mainstream", components.

The source code will be posted and available for you to use according to the GNU General Public License.  The source code will have been tested and running.  Although, until I find a hosting site that doesn't cost anything, I won't be posting a running version of the app.

The first topic is a basic order application that will tie in:
JSF 2.0 Mojarra, MySQL, Hibernate JPA using JTA, Glassfish 3.x & JBoss 7, REST, SOAP, Primefaces 2.2, AJAX, JUnit 4.3, EJB 3.0, developed in NetBeans.

The second topic will take a different technology stack:
JSF 2.0 Mojarra, Spring, MySQL, Hibernate JPA using JTA, JEE Containers - Glassfish 3.x & JBoss 7, REST, SOAP, Richfaces, JUnit.

The third topic will explore security for both the JSF application and the Web Services.

After that, we will see were we go.  Maybe to an old favorite HTML5.