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Max Katz

Senior Systems Engineer at Exadel

Max Katz is a Senior Systems Engineer at Exadel. He has been helping customers jump-start their RIA development as well as providing mentoring, consulting, and training. Max is a recognized subject matter expert in the JSF developer community. He has provided JSF/RichFaces training for the past three years, presented at many conferences, and written several published articles on JSF-related topics. Max also leads Exadel's RIA strategy and writes about RIA technologies in his blog, http://mkblog.exadel.com. He is an author of "Practical RichFaces" book (Apress). Max holds a BS in computer science from the University of California, Davis.

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RichFaces rich:isUserInRole function

Posted Friday, March 12, 2010

I blogged earlier about four built-in RichFaces functions that come in very handy, especially the rich:component(id) one. Many rich components (from rich;* tag library) provide client-side JavaScript API. To access this API, you need to u more »

JBoss Tools 3.1 is now out

Posted Friday, March 12, 2010

JBoss Tools team released JBoss Tools version 3.1 this week. It’s the best IDE for doing enterprise Java development with JSF, RichFaces, Seam, JPA, more »

Using BIRT and Actuate with JSF, RichFaces

Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Virgil Dodson from Actuate posted a great tutorial on how to use BIRT and Actuate with JSF. RichFaces is used as well. The tutorial uses jsf4birt library devel more »
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  • JBoss RichFaces is a rich JSF component library that helps developers quickly develop next–generation web applications. Practical RichFaces describes how to best take advantage of RichFaces, the integration of the Ajax4jsf and RichFaces libraries, to create a flexible and powerful programs. Assuming some JSF background, it shows you how you can radically reduce programming time and effort to create rich AJAX based applications.

    What you’ll learn

    • Quickly learn how to build Rich Internet Applications with out–of–the–box RichFaces components.
    • Discover best strategies for implementing Ajax applications using RichFaces.
    • Find out when best to use the two libraries.
    • Create new skins for your app in no time.
    • Create applications without needing to write any JavaScript code.

    Who is this book for

    Java developers with good JSF knowledge looking to build next–generation web applications using RichFaces, JSF users, Java programmers wishing to add Ajax to their existing programs, and old users of Ajax4jsf

    About the Apress Practical Series

    The Practical series from Apress is your best choice for getting the job done, period. From professional to expert, this series lets you apply project–motivated templates (or frameworks) step by step in a very direct, practical, and efficient manner toward current real–world projects that may be sitting on your desk. So whatever your career goal, Apress can be your trusted guide to take you where you want to go on your IT career empowerment path.