JBoss RichFaces is a rich JSF component library that helps developers quickly develop next-generation web applications. Practical RichFaces describes how to best take advantage of RichFaces, the integration of the Ajax4jsf and RichFaces libraries, to create a flexible and powerful programs. Assuming some JSF background, it shows you how you can radically reduce programming time and effort to create rich AJAX based applications.

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The missing manual on RichFaces - 2009-04-05
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A good start, perhaps the next edition will be even better - 2009-06-06
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I want to thank Max and crew for providing RichFaces, which is a great tool. I have used RichFaces on multiple projects and anticipate many more.

This book is not too bad. Happily, there is not much attention given to explaining Ajax or JSF/JSTL which has already been well addressed by other books. Also (a plus) it doesn't bulk up the page count by including the RichFaces documentation.

As other reviewers have mentioned, this book supplies a fair amount of missing detail. Good as far as it goes, but IMO it doesn't go far enough and this is why I only gave 4 stars.

File upload only recieved a few lines in the book, which is a surprise. I also thought the list components could have used more attention w/converters.

If you code using RichFaces it is helpful to skim this book. Hopefully the next edition will have more examples.

Great book - 2009-05-23
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This book was even more than what I expected from it.

I have been working on a RichFaces for about a couple of months now, and I was really surprised how well everything I was missing got "connected". This practical/hands-on focus on solving real-world situations is what I really expected from this book, and it was totally fullfilled.

I liked the examples, and was able to follow them (even the ones with typos =P).

I also liked the communication skills from the author, making the reading really straightforward.

Thanks Max for your effort!

The only book covering JBoss RichFaces - 2009-02-23
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It is so sad that there was still no book on RichFaces, when I was starting. I was reading the Developer Guide, that was just a flat reference to the topic.

With this book one can just take and learn everything on how to get/setup/use that advanced JSF "addon" called RichFaces. Experienced RichFaces users will find the book helpful by looking at well formed component examples and attribute usages, but newbies will say "thank you" after each answer found for their questions.

Components are classified by their missions, such as input components, output components, data-iteration components etc. Tag attributes are well explained and demonstrated by examples. Ajax based validation and RichFaces Skins are explored in depth.

I recommend this book to everyone who wants to get informed on this great library. The library is growing up very fast and I am sure this book will have a lot of new editions.

Thanks to Max and Exadel team for for their awesome creature! Wish you all prosperous future, growth and new excellent ideas!

Reference Documentation - 2009-05-26
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This book is a reference documentation for the richfaces components. Nothing more!!! It's not worth buying!

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