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>
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 javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
@SessionScoped
@ManagedBean(name = "demoManagedBean")
public class DemoManagedBean {
private int number1;
private int number2;
private int result;
public int getNumber1() {
return number1;
}
public void setNumber1(int number1) {
this.number1 = number1;
}
public int getNumber2() {
return number2;
}
public void setNumber2(int number2) {
this.number2 = number2;
}
public int getResult() {
return result;
}
public void setResult(int result) {
this.result = result;
}
public void sum() {
this.result = this.number1 + this.number2;
}
}
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">
<h:head></h:head>
<body>
<h:form prependId="false">
<h3>Demo Ajax</h3>
Number 1 <h:inputText id="number1" value="#{demoManagedBean.number1}"></h:inputText>
<br></br>
Number 2 <h:inputText id="number2" value="#{demoManagedBean.number2}"></h:inputText>
<br></br>
<h:commandButton value="Sum" action="#{demoManagedBean.sum()}">
<f:ajax execute="@form" render="resultAjax" ></f:ajax>
</h:commandButton>
<br></br>
Result: <h:outputText id="resultAjax" value="#{demoManagedBean.result != null ? demoManagedBean.result : ''}"></h:outputText>
</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