seventhGene said
If you are new to JSF, this is not the first place to go searching-this book clearly does not use the hello world (learning) pattern to introduce you to this technology. You could get frustrated with the first 3 chapters especially if you do not have any swing or struts knowledge.That said, this book is without any doubt rich in content.If you already have had hands on experience in JSF and are intending to go a mile further, following the writers wouldn't be difficult.The first few chapters are however more explanatory than example oriented.
AA said
If you are like me, you don't have the time to read about the philosophy behind the design of JSF or how it's more like swing than struts. Why can't the authors of such books start with a hello world example. Most experienced programmers can figure out the basics of JSF just by looking at the hello world example and relating it to technologies they've already used(struts, perhaps?). Most authors can't resist the temptation to impress us with the awesome power of the new framework especially when they haven't introduced the basic examples? Why have a whole chapter explaining the intricacies of faces-config.xml before you really introduce a simple application? I got more out of http://www.jsftutorials.net than the first few chapters of this book. Get eclipse wtp, install the jsf plugin and go through the tutorial.
J. Garcia said
This book reads very well. Explains most things very clearly but the examples are missing what to put into the faces-config.xml file. Ch. 5, Ch 6, ... have some nice examples and show you what goes in the jsp files but as you add to these jsp files you need to make the necessary adjustments to the faces-config.xml file too. You have to download the source to see the contents of the faces-config.xml file.
As a beginner, I found this very frustrating and out searching the net for more tutorials that show how to make adjustments to the faces-config.xml and the JSP file.
Other than this issue, the book is good the learning about the JSP/JSF contents.
It is just disappointing that this book was so close, if it had covered the faces-config.xml I would have given it 5 stars.
Anthony Maniaci said
Good outline of JavaServer Faces but not enough examples. Too much theory not enough practical examples. It is not a complete reference so you need other books or sources to get answers on specific functions and uses of JavaServer Faces.
Jose R. C. Martins said
The problem is that the book has a lot of mistakes and don't explain some mechanism like ValueBinding. The book use hibernate to persist data to database and this can be a problem to people who don't know this technology, in my opinion they should have used plain JDBC technology, it would be much easier to the readers.
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