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: Product.java
Product.java
package com.entities;
public class Product {
private String id;
private String name;
private double price;
public String getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(String id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public double getPrice() {
return price;
}
public void setPrice(double price) {
this.price = price;
}
public Product(String id, String name, double price) {
this.id = id;
this.name = name;
this.price = price;
}
public Product() {
}
}
Create Managed Bean
Create new package named com.demo in src/main/java folder. In this package, create new java class named DemoManagedBean.java as below:
package com.demo;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
import com.entities.Product;
@SessionScoped
@ManagedBean(name = "demoManagedBean")
public class DemoManagedBean {
private List<Product> products = null;
public List<Product> getProducts() {
return products;
}
public void setProducts(List<Product> products) {
this.products = products;
}
public void display() {
this.products = new ArrayList<Product>();
this.products.add(new Product("p01", "name 1", 20));
this.products.add(new Product("p02", "name 2", 21));
this.products.add(new Product("p03", "name 3", 22));
}
}
Create View
Create new xhtml file named index.xhtml in src\main\webapp as below:
<!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:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core">
<h:head></h:head>
<body>
<h:form prependId="false">
<h3>Demo Ajax</h3>
<h:commandButton value="Product List" action="#{demoManagedBean.display()}">
<f:ajax render="resultAjax"></f:ajax>
</h:commandButton>
<br></br>
<h:panelGroup id="resultAjax">
<c:if test="#{demoManagedBean.products != null}">
<c:forEach var="product" items="#{demoManagedBean.products}">
Id: #{product.id}
<br></br>
Name: #{product.name}
<br></br>
Price: #{product.price}
<br></br>
===============
<br></br>
</c:forEach>
</c:if>
</h:panelGroup>
</h:form>
</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
Output