Seam 2.x Web Development Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Seam
Chapter 2: Developing Seam Applications
Chapter 3: Seam Page Flow
Chapter 4: Facelets
Chapter 5: Testing Seam Applications
Chapter 6: RichFaces
Chapter 7: Database Persistence
Chapter 8: Seam Conversations
Chapter 9: Seam and AJAX
Chapter 10: Security
Chapter 11: Enterprise Features
Appendix: JBoss Tools
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Seam
  • What is Seam?
  • Why use Seam?
  • Seam requirements
  • Installing JBoss Application Server
  • Starting the JBoss Application Server
  • Installing Seam
  • Testing our Seam installation
    • Start the JBoss Application Server
    • Deploy the sample application
    • Run the sample application
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Developing Seam Applications
  • Seam application architecture
  • Seam components
  • Object Injection and Outjection
  • Example application
    • WAR file deployment descriptors
    • EAR file deployment descriptors
    • Application layout
    • Testing the application
    • Building and deploying the application
  • Seam data validation
    • Data validation
    • The JSF messages collection
  • Building and testing the validating Seam calculator
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Seam Page Flow
  • Simple navigation
  • Seam style navigation
    • Defining a page flow in pages.xml
      • <page> element
      • <navigation> element
      • <rule> element
    • Error handling
    • Executing code before rendering pages
  • A working example
    • <s:selectItems/> and <s:convertEnum />
    • Rendering the options in the sample application
    • Running the sample application
  • Seam jPDL navigation
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Facelets
  • What is Facelets?
  • Why Facelets? Why not JSP?
    • Templating
      • Template parameters
    • Performance
    • EL functions
    • XHTML
    • No scriptlets
  • Obtaining and installing Facelets
  • Configuring a web application for Facelets
    • Changes in the web.xml file
    • Changes in the faces-config.xml file
    • Example Facelets files from the previous chapter
  • SeamGen
  • Creating the Vacation Planner application using SeamGen
  • Seam debug page
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Testing Seam Applications
  • Overview of Seam application testing
  • TestNG
  • Component testing
  • Testing the user interface
  • Seam component testing
  • Mocking Seam components
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: RichFaces
  • Obtaining RichFaces
  • Configuring an application for RichFaces
    • Add JAR files to the web application
    • Configuring the application's XML resources
  • RichFaces controls
    • <rich:calendar />
      • JavaScript methods
    • <rich:panel />
      • JavaScript methods
  • <rich:modalPanel />
    • JavaScript methods
  • <rich:simpleTogglePanel />
    • JavaScript methods
  • <rich:fileUpload />
    • JavaScript methods
  • <rich:gmap />
    • JavaScript methods
  • <rich:dataTable />
    • JavaScript methods

• Summary

• Chapter 7: Database Persistence
  • Overview of database persistence
  • How SeamGen helps with persistence
  • Persisting Java entities to the database
  • Retrieving Java entities from the database
  • Integrating Java entities with Facelets
  • Relationships between entities
    • One-to-one relationships
    • One-to-many and many-to-one relationships
    • Many-to-many relationships
  • Performing CRUD operations on entities
  • The Seam application framework
    • Home objects
      • Accessing home objects from Facelets
      • XML definition of home objects
    • Query objects
      • Accessing query objects from Facelets
      • XML definition of query objects
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Seam Conversations
  • Component scope
    • Local variables
    • HTTP session data
    • Global variables
  • Seam component scope
    • Defining the scope of a Seam component
  • What are conversations?
    • Starting a conversation
      • Automatically starting a conversation when a page is viewed
    • Ending a conversation
      • Automatically ending a conversation when a page is viewed
    • Propagating conversations between Windows
    • Propagating conversations
    • Viewing conversations
  • Conversation configuration
    • Conversation parameter
    • Conversation timeout
    • Concurrent request timeout
  • Natural conversations
    • Setting up a natural conversation
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Seam and AJAX
  • What is AJAX?
  • AJAX and the Seam Framework
  • Configuring Seam applications for Seam Remoting
    • Configuring Seam Remoting server side
    • Configuring Seam Remoting client side
    • Invoking Seam components via Remoting
    • Debugging Seam Remoting
      • The org.jboss.seam.remoting.remoting component
      • The <remoting:remoting> component
    • Logging
    • Changing the Please wait message
  • AJAX4JSF
    • Configuring an application for AJAX4JSF
    • AJAX4JSF tags
      • <a4j:commandButton />
      • <a4j:commandLink />
      • <a4j:poll />
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: Security
  • User authentication
    • Security authenticator
      • Persisting user information
      • Creating an authenticator
      • Securing web pages
      • Creating a logon form
      • Redirecting to the requested page after login
  • User roles
    • Implement a role class
    • Add required Seam annotations
    • Assign a set of roles to a user
    • Restricting user interface access via roles
  • Auditing security events
  • CAPTCHAs
  • The Seam identity manager API
    • Creating a user with the identity manager
    • Specifying security rules
    • Defining security roles with rules
  • OpenID
    • Configuring a Seam web application to support OpenID
    • Configure an OpenID phase listener
    • Ensure that the correct JAR files are on the application's classpath
    • Write a Logon form
    • Configure page redirection after an OpenID logon
    • The OpenID logon process
  • Summary

• Chapter 11: Enterprise Features
  • Internationalization
    • Defining the application languages
    • Write application-specific strings
    • Display language-specific strings
    • Dynamically changing the localization
    • Persisting the localization settings
    • SeamGen support for localization
    • Displaying Hibernate Validator messages
  • URL rewriting
    • Enabling URL rewriting
  • Seam events
    • Raising events
      • Raising events with @RaiseEvent
      • Raising events with org.jboss.seam.core.Events
    • Observing events
  • PDF document generation
    • PDF required configuration
    • Generating PDFs
      • <p:document />
      • <p:paragraph />
      • <p:text />
      • <p:font />
      • <p:table /> and <p:cell />
      • <p:html />
  • Email
    • Configuring the SMTP settings
    • Writing an email template
      • <m:from />
      • <m:to />
      • <m:subject />
      • <m:body />
      • <m:attachment />
    • Sending an email
  • The future of Seam
  • Summary

• Appendix: JBoss Tools
  • Overview of JBoss Tools
  • Installing JBoss Tools
  • Creating Seam projects
  • Managing Seam projects
    • JSP / Facelet editor
    • Pages.xml editor
    • Components.xml editor
  • Running Seam projects
  • Summary

• Index

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