JBoss does not follow to the letter any of the established development methodologies. JBoss borrows ideas, learns from experience and continuously evolves and adapts its process to the dynamics of a largely distributed, highly motivated, and talented team.
The goal of this book is to get you up and running J2EE 1.4 applications on JBoss 4.0 as quickly as possible. At the time of writing, the latest release is version 4.0.2.
The scope of this book is using J2EE 1.3 on the JBoss 3.2.x series. At the time of writing, the latest release is version 3.2.3. You should use this version or later with the examples.
Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) middleware has matured. This has created opportunity for lower cost alternatives including open source. Open source application server JBoss Application Server (JBoss AS) is one of the most popular J2EE application servers.
Welcome to the Source. Here at JBoss we are about providing quality services behind a quality server. In its 3 years of existence, you have come to know JBoss as the premier provider of Java middleware. “Just good java” is our moto.
This is the JavaServer Faces 1.2 (JSF 1.2) specification, developed by the JSR-252 expert group under the Java Community Process (see <http://www.jcp.org> for more information about the JCP).
We are going to show you how to create a simple JSF application using the JBoss Developer Studio plug-in for Eclipse.
The past couple of years have seen the emergence of JSF (Java Server Faces) as the technology of choice for building the user interface (UI) layer of Java web applications. Oracle’s own business applications are committing to JSF as the UI technology in the “Fusion” stack.
The tutorial consists of seven separate steps for building up an example application. Each step adds new code to the previous example. The tutorial includes code representing the result of each step.
This tutorial is derived from Marty Hall’s world-renowned live JSF training course. Note that the course (and this tutorial) now covers Apache MyFaces 1.1.5.