Java server faces

JavaServer Faces 2.0: The Complete Reference

About the Authors

Ed Burns is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. Ed has worked on a wide variety of client- and serverside Web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat, and most recently, JavaServer Faces. Ed is currently the co-spec lead for JavaServer Faces. Find Ed’s blog andother goodies at http://purl.oclc.org/NET/edburns/. Chris Schalk is a Developer Advocate and works to promote Google’s APIs and technologies. He is currently engaging the international Web development community with the new Google App Engine and OpenSocial APIs. Before joining Google, Chris was a Principal Product Manager and technology evangelist at Oracle in the Java development tools group.About the Contributing Author

Neil Griffin represents Liferay on the JSR 314 (JSF 2.0) expert group and has 15 years of professional experience in software engineering. As a Liferay project committer, Neil is responsible for interfacing with ICEsoft in order to ensure that ICEfaces integrates properly within Liferay Portal. Neil is the cofounder of the PortletFaces project, which makes JSF portletdevelopment easier. He has authored training classes for Liferay and ICEsoft and has served as a consultant for clients implementing JSF and ICEfaces portlets.

JavaServer Faces 2.0: The Complete Reference
Ed Burns Chris Schalk
with Neil Griffin

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