There will be separate overview of the mistakes in the book later but the one which confused me in this chapter needs to be highlighted there – “launching the dialog window” section has a piece of code (to build list and select one the products) which completely differs from screenshot after it(just picking the color from color picker) and this is really weird. That chapter is very good as a common overview of the features and startup for reading detailed references of the library. The Trinidad chapter will be more interesting for the reader as contains not only tag a library overview but good common feature descriptions such as Ajax, skinning and client side validation/conversion. These are represented in a way, and have a set of good simple samples of usage in applications. The Tomahawk chapter, much like the chapter on standard components is just a brief usage overview of the components. I think the choice between facelets and JSP will be simple after reading that chapter and it would be enough to just start development without reading official documentation or any external articles additionally. Basic principles, features and advantages over JSP explained very clear in a simple way. The next chapter on “Facelets” is really cool and after reading ahead I think it’s the best chapter in the book and the main reason to buy it. Insightful Facelets chapter for the future Facelets developer That chapter is likely not interesting for the guys who have already looked at some JSF kick-start projects which exists in any IDE. At first Ian just describes how to create the pages using standard components. It seemed the author almost didn’t care about the JSF lifecycle and some other architectural points of JSF. Perhaps they learned some very high level basics of what JSF is and need to get quick overview of component libraries which exist in the ecosystem. When I was done with the first chapter I decided that I was reading a book which is written for beginner JSF GUI developers. I finally got some free time and read the new JSF 1.2 Components book written by Ian Hlavats and I wanted to share my impressions with you.
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