Preface

Developing web applications with Java and JavaServer Faces had been a great pleasure (and success) to me for a couple of years, when I first wanted to write a book about JSF in late 2010. At this time, I got in touch with some German publishers. My goal was to write apx. 200-250 pages about this subject, nothing more. “No thanks, too special” had been the common answer. And: “Great. Add some more pages, e.g, another thousand, and write about the whole Java Enterprise edition. Keep JSF smaller than 200 pages.” Frustrating answers.

Thus, I started to blog about JSF in early 2011. Depending on my spare time and loosely coupled. And I became a member of the JSF (JSR 344) Expert Group. Sadly, at a late time, when almost the most work had been done. Unlike most of the other volunteers, I’ not a JSF implementer, but an expert JSF user. I hope, next round, I’m able to contribute early and more.

My tutorial about Web Development with JSF is still the most popular part of my blog (blog.mueller-bruehl.de/), and I never gave up my intention to write a book about this subject. Over time, I switched from blogging in German to write about development in English mostly. And similar to the cited suggestion of this German publisher, I do not write about JSF only. That’s why I changed the title to “with Java and JSF”. This book covers a lot of related Java (EE) technologies. And for those developers, who are not familiar with HTML, CSS and other stuff, I add some introductory chapters in the appendix for free.

Your feedback is welcome. Please send me an email to feedback@webdevelopment-java.info.

Enjoy!