The first time you sign into developerWorks, a profile is created for you. Select information in your developerWorks profile is displayed to the public, but you may edit the information at any time. Your first name, last name (unless you choose to hide them), and display name will accompany the content that you post.

All information submitted is secure.

The first time you sign in to developerWorks, a profile is created for you, so you need to choose a display name. Your display name accompanies the content you post on developerworks.

Please choose a display name between 3-31 characters. Your display name must be unique in the developerWorks community and should not be your email address for privacy reasons.

All information submitted is secure.

My developerWorks:

My notifications:

Sign out

Select a language:

Build Apache Geronimo applications using JavaServer Faces, Part 4: Extend JSF with Apache Trinidad components

Chris Herborth, Freelance, Freelance Writer

Chris Herborth is an award-winning senior technical writer with more than 10 years of experience writing about operating systems and programming. When he's not playing with his son Alex or hanging out with his wife Lynette, Chris spends his spare time designing, writing, and researching (that is, playing) video games.

Summary: So far in this five-part tutorial series, you've explored Java™Server Faces (JSF), including deploying a simple JSF application on Apache Geronimo, integrating Apache Tomahawk with the application, and learning how to add Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) capabilities to your JSF application using the Sun Ajax4jsf open source framework. In this installment, Part 4, you'll learn how to use Apache Trinidad, the open source version of ADF Faces. Trinidad offers a set of complimentary components that will further enhance the interface of your JSF application.

View more content in this series

Tag this!

Date: 05 Dec 2006
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (335 KB | 24 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

Activity: 6285 views
Comments:

Before you start

This tutorial shows Java programmers how to build highly interactive Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications for deployment on Apache Geronimo using the JSF components. The tutorial assumes you'll be using the Eclipse IDE as your development platform.

About this tutorial

This tutorial introduces you to Apache Trinidad, a set of complimentary components that will improve the interface of your JSF application. You'll convert the existing front end of your sample application for the sign-up pages of a developer forum to use Trinidad components.

About this series

This tutorial is the fourth of a five-part series about building Apache Geronimo applications using JSF. Here's a rundown of the entire series:

Part 1: Use Eclipse and Apache MyFaces Core to build a basic application introduced you to using Apache's MyFaces implementation of the JSF standard with Geronimo, a free application server (also from Apache). This tutorial showed you how to use the Eclipse IDE's Web Tool Platform (WTP) to build JSF applications.
Part 2: Using Tomahawk with JavaServer Faces showed you how to integrate Apache Tomahawk components with your Geronimo application. Tomahawk provides several custom components that are 100% compatible with JSF.
Part 3: Using Ajax4jsf with JavaServer Faces demonstrated how to use Sun's free open source framework, Ajax4jsf, to add Ajax capabilities to your Geronimo application.
Part 4: Extend JSF with Apache Trinidad components teaches you how to integrate components from Apache Trinidad, the open source version of ADF Faces, with your Geronimo application to enhance your JSF application's interface.
Part 5: Integrating your JSF Application with Spring shows you how to integrate your JSF applications with the Spring Framework, a popular framework that makes it easier for Geronimo developers to build Java EE applications.

Prerequisites

This tutorial is for Java developers who have experience accessing back-end systems for data extraction or manipulating. Furthermore, a basic understanding of SQL is required. Ideally, as a developer you'll have experience with a prior version of one or more of the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) APIs, utilizing interfaces, such as ResultSet and Connection. In addition, you should have a basic understanding of JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology.

System requirements

You need the following tools to follow along with this tutorial:

Geronimo, Apache's Java EE server project. Geronimo comes in Tomcat and Jetty flavors, depending on your needs. We used the Jetty flavor (version 1.1) because it's smaller. Note: You must use Geronimo 1.2 or later to work with Apache Trinidad.
MyFaces, Apache's JSF implementation. Download the core version (without Tomcat) from Apache. We used version 1.1.3 with this tutorial.
Eclipse, the extensible open source IDE that supports a wide range of languages and platforms.
Apache Trinidad's additional components and input validators for use with any JSF implementation. Based on Oracle's ADF Faces, Trinidad is undergoing Apache incubator development, so you'll have to grab the current development snapshots: Go to the main snapshot page, and select trinidad-api and trinidad-impl until you find trinidad-api-incubator-m1-SNAPSHOT.jar and trinidad-impl-incubator-m1-SNAPSHOT.jar.
Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP), which adds support for XML and JavaScript editing, as well as preliminary JSF support, to Eclipse. Use Eclipse's Update Manager to install the Web Tools Platform from the updater site.
Java 1.4 or newer installed on your system. Eclipse binaries come with their own Java run time, but Geronimo and MyFaces don't (that would seriously bloat up the download archives). I'll be using Java 1.5 on Mac OS X 10.4, but it shouldn't make much of a difference.

Comments

Close [x]

Help: Update or add to My dW interests

What's this?

This little timesaver lets you update your My developerWorks profile with just one click! The general subject of this content (AIX and UNIX, Information Management, Lotus, Rational, Tivoli, WebSphere, Java, Linux, Open source, SOA and Web services, Web development, or XML) will be added to the interests section of your profile, if it's not there already. You only need to be logged in to My developerWorks.

And what's the point of adding your interests to your profile? That's how you find other users with the same interests as yours, and see what they're reading and contributing to the community. Your interests also help us recommend relevant developerWorks content to you.

View your My developerWorks profile

Return from help

Close [x]

Help: Remove from My dW interests

What's this?

Removing this interest does not alter your profile, but rather removes this piece of content from a list of all content for which you've indicated interest. In a future enhancement to My developerWorks, you'll be able to see a record of that content.

View your My developerWorks profile

Return from help

static.content.url=http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/js/artrating/

SITE_ID=1

Zone=Open source, Java technology

ArticleID=181463

TutorialTitle=Build Apache Geronimo applications using JavaServer Faces, Part 4: Extend JSF with Apache Trinidad components

publish-date=12052006

author1-email=chrish@pobox.com

author1-email-cc=troy@backstopmedia.com