Create Maven Project
On the Eclipse, create a Maven project
Click Next button and select maven-archetype-webapp
Click Next button and enter Project Information:
- GroupId: LearnJSFFrameworkWithRealApps
- Artifact Id: LearnJSFFrameworkWithRealApps
- Package: com.demo
Click Finish button to finish create Maven project. Add Libraries and Dynamic Web Module as below:
- Select project and right click, select Properties menu
- Select Project Facets on left side
- Select Dynamic Web Module
- Select JavaServer Faces
Configure web.xml
Open web.xml file in src\main\webapp\WEB-INF folder and add configurations for JSF Framework as below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>LearnJSFFrameworkWithRealApps</display-name>
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>
<param-value>Development</param-value>
</context-param>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>faces/index.xhtml</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.faces</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
Configure pom.xml
Open pom.xml file and add configurations for JSF Framework as below:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.demo</groupId>
<artifactId>LearnJSFFrameworkWithRealApps</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>LearnJSFFrameworkWithRealApps Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>
<version>2.2.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-impl</artifactId>
<version>2.2.17</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
<artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.el</groupId>
<artifactId>el-ri</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>LearnJSFFrameworkWithRealApps</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Entity Class
Create new package, named com.entities. In this package, create a entity class: Account.java
Account.java
package com.entities;
public class Account {
private String username;
private String password;
private int age;
private String email;
private String website;
public String getUsername() {
return username;
}
public void setUsername(String username) {
this.username = username;
}
public String getPassword() {
return password;
}
public void setPassword(String password) {
this.password = password;
}
public int getAge() {
return age;
}
public void setAge(int age) {
this.age = age;
}
public String getEmail() {
return email;
}
public void setEmail(String email) {
this.email = email;
}
public String getWebsite() {
return website;
}
public void setWebsite(String website) {
this.website = website;
}
}
Create Managed Bean
Create new package named com.demo in src/main/java folder. In this package, create new java class named AccountManagedBean.java as below:
package com.demo;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
import com.entities.Account;
@SessionScoped
@ManagedBean(name = "accountManagedBean")
public class AccountManagedBean {
private Account account;
public Account getAccount() {
return account;
}
public void setAccount(Account account) {
this.account = account;
}
public AccountManagedBean() {
this.account = new Account();
}
public String save() {
return "success?faces-redirect=true";
}
}
Create View
Create new xhtml files in src\main\webapp as below:
Index View
Create new xhtml file named index.xhtml as below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets">
<h:head>
<title>Register Page</title>
</h:head>
<h:body>
<h3>Register Page</h3>
<h:form prependId="false">
<table border="0">
<tr>
<td>Username</td>
<td>
<h:inputText value="#{accountManagedBean.account.username}"
required="true" requiredMessage="This field is required" id="username">
<f:validateLength minimum="3" maximum="10"></f:validateLength>
</h:inputText>
</td>
<td>
<h:message for="username"></h:message>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Password</td>
<td>
<h:inputSecret value="#{accountManagedBean.account.password}"
required="true" requiredMessage="This field is required" id="password">
<f:validateRegex pattern="((?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[@#$%]).{6,20})"></f:validateRegex>
</h:inputSecret>
</td>
<td>
<h:message for="password"></h:message>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Age</td>
<td>
<h:inputText value="#{accountManagedBean.account.age}"
required="true" requiredMessage="This field is required" id="age">
<f:validateLongRange minimum="18" maximum="120"></f:validateLongRange>
</h:inputText>
</td>
<td>
<h:message for="age"></h:message>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email</td>
<td>
<h:inputText value="#{accountManagedBean.account.email}"
required="true" requiredMessage="This field is required" id="email">
<f:validateRegex pattern="\w+([-+.]\w+)*@\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*"></f:validateRegex>
</h:inputText>
</td>
<td>
<h:message for="email"></h:message>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Website</td>
<td>
<h:inputText value="#{accountManagedBean.account.website}" id="website">
<f:validateRegex pattern="http(s)?://([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]+(/[\w- ./?%&=]*)?"></f:validateRegex>
</h:inputText>
</td>
<td>
<h:message for="website"></h:message>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>
<h:commandButton value="Save" action="#{accountManagedBean.save()}"></h:commandButton>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</h:form>
</h:body>
</html>
Result View
Create new xhtml file named result.xhtml as below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui">
<h:head>
<title>Result Page</title>
</h:head>
<h:body>
<h3>Result Page</h3>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>Username</td>
<td>#{accountManagedBean.account.username}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Password</td>
<td>#{accountManagedBean.account.password}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Age</td>
<td>#{accountManagedBean.account.age}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email</td>
<td>#{accountManagedBean.account.email}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Website</td>
<td>#{accountManagedBean.account.website}</td>
</tr>
</table>
</h:body>
</html>
Structure of Project
Run Application
Select project, right click and select Run on Server menu
Access index.xhtml page with following url:
http://localhost:8080/LearnJSFFrameworkWithRealApps/faces/index.xhtml
Click Save button submit form to save method with some instances of invalid data as below:
Click Save button submit form to save method with valid data as below: