Templating is a very powerful feature for developing web applications with many pages that follow the same layout and design. This article demonstrates how to use facelets to create reusable templates for JSF pages.

Prerequisites Install Maven In this tutorial, we will create a new project using the Knappsack Archetypes and compile and deploy it. For this example, we will use the jee6-basic-archetype. Before you begin, you will need to have installed Maven, but you no longer need to manually install the Knappsack Archetypes as they are in the […]

In part 1, we looked at creating a JEE 6 application with Netbeans using JSF and CDI running on Glassfish. Now we’ll take a closer look at using CDI for managing dependencies in a Java EE 6 environment.

Here’s a quick tutorial on how easy it is to get started with JSF 2.0 and JSR 299, Java Contexts and Dependency Inject (CDI) using the latest release of Netbeans 6.8.

Like Christmas come early, Sun announced the release of JEE 6. This release sees continued improvement in the JEE stack with the inclusion of JSR 299, Java Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI), and EJB 3.1 as well as JSF 2.0, and JPA 2.0. JSF especially has seen changes as a result of practical user feedback […]

I’ve spent some time in the last couple of weeks playing around with Glassfish, Netbeans 6.8 Beta (and milestone 2 before it) and JSF 2.0, and I have to say that this is turning out to be a really good set of development libraries and tools.