This session examines the ecosystem of products built on JavaServer Faces.

We start with a discussion of why JSF is significant and explain how it lays the foundation for a range of new products. We then look at the IDE offerings from major industry players, such as Sun, IBM, and Oracle. Next, we examine the products from smaller vendors and open source organizations, such as component suites and additional toolkits and frameworks, examining the specific features and benefits that these products provide. Finally, we look at other potential product opportunities and examine ways to get involved.

With the emergence of AJAX as a preferred way of building web user interfaces, JavaServer Faces (JSF) has proved itself to be a natural fit for integrating AJAX with Java sever-side logic.

JSF allows you to build AJAX applications without worrying about the complexities of JavaScript and DHTML. However, many different approaches for using AJAX with JSF have emerged. This session looks at these different approaches, the pros and cons, and provides key insight into JSF's future as an AJAX web development platform.

For developers who are currently using Spring and JavaServer Faces together, this session explains how to handle common application development concerns such as conversational scope, transaction management, and application partitioning.

For developers who are currently using Spring and JavaServer Faces together, this session explains how to handle common application development concerns such as conversational scope, transaction management, and application partitioning.

Specific tools such as Apache MyFaces Orchestra and Spring WebFlow will be discussed. At the end of this session, developers will understand how to build a full-stack JavaServer Faces/Spring/Hibernate or JPA application with features similar to those of JBoss Seam.