JBoss RichFaces 3.3 -- Table of Contents -- JBoss RichFaces 3.3 -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- Preface -- What this book covers -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. What is RichFaces? -- An overview of RichFaces -- A bit of history -- The Ajax framework -- Ajax Action Components -- Ajax Containers -- Ajax placeholders -- Ajax validators -- RichFaces components overview -- RichFaces skinnability overview -- Summary -- 2. Getting Ready -- Creating a RichFaces JSF project the simple way -- Seam-gen -- Download and install seam-gen -- Generating a project using seam-gen -- Update RichFaces libraries in a seam-gen generated project -- Overview of the project structure -- Incremental hot deployment -- Seam and Facelets support -- Adding RichFaces manually to your existing JSF project -- Downloading RichFaces -- Basic configuration -- Where to put the libraries -- Registering RichFaces -- Facelets support -- IDEs -- Eclipse/JBoss Tools -- Where to download and how to install it -- JBoss Developer Studio -- Importing a seam-gen generated project into Eclipse -- IntelliJ Idea -- Where to download and how to install it -- Summary -- 3. First Steps -- A simple contact manager -- Creating the new project -- Templating and Facelets -- Modifying the created project -- The model -- The managed bean -- Making it a managed bean -- The "Insert new contact" form -- The main box -- The form fields -- Using RichFaces message and messages components instead of the standard ones -- Validating our field in a simple way -- Adding Ajax to standard JSF components: a4j:support -- Calendar field -- Simple layout components: rich:separator and rich:spacer -- Ajax command buttons: a4j:commandButton -- Ajax command links: a4j:commandLink -- The contact list.

Re-rendering the contact list after adding a new contact -- Adding the delete button -- Summary -- 4. The Application -- What we are going to develop? -- Features -- Groups manager -- File uploads and notes -- Simple search -- User skin -- Multilanguage -- The database: E-R diagram -- Importing the database -- Creating the project -- The class diagram -- Some modification to the entities -- Editing the template page -- The menu page -- The login page -- The home page -- Summary -- 5. Making the Application Structure -- Skinnability and dynamic skin change -- Selecting the application skin -- User-selected application skin -- Passing application parameters using components.xml -- Making skin selection user-dependent -- Standard controls skinning -- XCSS and Plug-n-Skin -- Adding built-in plug'n'skin skins -- Some examples -- Internationalization -- Configuration -- Internationalize strings -- User-selected language -- Persist the selected locale using a cookie -- Menu bar using rich:toolBar component -- Making the login work -- User registration -- Creating the page structure -- Creating the support bean -- Creating the form fields and action buttons -- Adding the validation rules -- Adding the sign up link to the menu bar -- Validating the password against another "Rewrite password" field -- Making your own validators -- Using a captcha -- Resetting the captcha -- Automatic login after registration -- Sending the confirmation emails -- Screenshot -- Reset password box -- Forgot username box -- URL rewriting: making it simple and powerful -- Summary -- 6. Making the Contacts List and Detail -- The main layout -- Ajax placeholders -- The groups box -- The contacts list -- Differences between h:dataTable and rich:dataTable -- Data pagination -- Adding the column headers -- Columns and column groups -- Out-of-the-box filtering and sorting.

The bottom toolbar -- The backing bean -- The contact detail -- The support bean -- Selecting the contact from the contacts list -- Adding a new contact -- Viewing contact detail -- Editing contact detail -- The button toolbar -- The ajaxSingle and the process attributes -- More Ajax! -- Ajax containers -- Data iteration using RichFaces -- Data pagination with data iteration components -- Addresses management -- Some screenshots -- Summary -- 7. Finishing the Application -- Taking a note of every contact -- A richer editor -- Let's group our contacts -- Listing, adding, and removing groups -- Other features of the rich:toolTip component -- Adding and editing groups -- The adding/editing form -- Adding contacts to a group using the drag 'n' drop -- Removing contacts from a group using drag'n'drop -- Attaching files -- Creating the wizard -- The file review step -- Creating the modal panel -- Control components without JavaScript -- Inserting the wizard inside the modal panel -- Finishing the file upload feature -- Summary -- 8. Skin Customization -- Skinnability -- Customize skin parameters -- Edit a basic skin -- Using CSS -- Redefine the skin-inserted CSS classes -- Specify our specific CSS classes -- Using skins with non-skinnable components -- Standard controls skinning -- XCSS -- Summary -- 9. Creating a New plug 'n' skin -- Installing Maven -- Creating the new skin -- Customizing the new skin -- Packaging and deploying the new skin -- Summary -- 10. Advanced Techniques -- Poll -- Creating images dynamically -- Push -- Creating a RichFaces JavaScript function -- Partial update of data iteration components -- RichFaces component binding in JBoss Seam / JBoss Application Server environment -- Moving all the libraries to the EAR -- A simple binding example -- The tree component -- State saving -- Action listeners.

Controlling the session expiration -- Summary -- 11. Component Development Kit -- Configuring the environment -- Installing Maven -- Configuring -- Creating the project -- Generating the template -- Testing the template -- Creating the component -- Component configuration -- Component resources -- Component renderer -- Testing the new component -- Summary -- A. RichFaces Components Overview -- Ajax sup0port -- a4j:ajaxListener -- a4j:actionparam -- a4j:commandButton -- a4j:commandLink -- a4j:form -- a4j:htmlCommandLink -- a4j:jsFunction -- a4j:poll -- a4j:push -- a4j:region -- a4j:status -- a4j:support -- Resources/beans handling -- a4j:keepAlive -- a4j:loadBundle -- a4j:loadScript -- a4j:loadStyle -- Ajax Validators -- rich:ajaxValidator -- rich:graphValidator -- rich:beanValidator -- Ajax output -- a4j:include -- a4j:mediaOutput -- a4j:outputPanel -- Ajax miscellaneous -- a4j:log -- a4j:page -- a4j:portlet -- Data iteration -- a4j:repeat -- rich:columns -- rich:columnGroup -- rich:column -- rich:dataGrid -- rich:dataList -- rich:dataOrderedList -- rich:dataDefinitionList -- rich:dataFilterSlider -- rich:datascroller -- rich:dataTable -- rich:subTable -- rich:extendedDataTable -- rich:scrollableDataTable -- Drag-and-drop support -- rich:dndParam -- rich:dragIndicator -- rich:dragSupport -- rich:dropSupport -- rich:dragListener -- rich:dropListener -- Rich Menu -- rich:contextMenu -- rich:dropDownMenu -- rich:menuGroup -- rich:menuItem -- rich:menuSeparator -- Rich trees -- rich:tree -- rich:treeNode -- rich:changeExpandListener -- rich:nodeSelectListener -- rich:recursiveTreeNodesAdaptor -- rich:treeNodesAdaptor -- Rich output -- rich:modalPanel -- rich:paint2D -- rich:panel -- rich:panelBar -- rich:panelBarItem -- rich:panelMenu -- rich:panelMenuGroup -- rich:panelMenuItem -- rich:progressBar -- rich:separator -- rich:simpleTogglePanel.

rich:spacer -- rich:tabPanel -- rich:tab -- rich:togglePanel -- rich:toggleControl -- rich:toolBar -- rich:toolBarGroup -- rich:toolTip -- Rich input -- rich:calendar -- rich:comboBox -- rich:fileUpload -- rich:inplaceInput -- rich:inplaceSelect -- rich:inputNumberSlider -- rich:inputNumberSpinner -- rich:suggestionbox -- Rich Selects -- rich:listShuttle -- rich:orderingList -- rich:pickList -- Rich miscellaneous -- rich:componentControl -- rich:effect -- rich:gmap -- rich:virtualEarth -- rich:hotKey -- rich:insert -- rich:jQuery -- rich:message -- rich:messages -- JSF 2 and RichFaces 4 -- RichFaces 3.3.X -- JSF 2.0 -- RichFaces 4.X -- Index.