Chapter 8. Event Handling

Topics in This Chapter

“Events and the JSF Life Cycle” on page 306 “Value Change Events” on page 307 “Action Events” on page 312 “Event Listener Tags” on page 318 “Immediate Components” on page 320 “Passing Data from the UI to the Server” on page 324 “Phase Events” on page 328 “System Events” on page 329 “Putting It All Together” on page 338

Web applications often need to respond to user events, such as selecting items from a menu or clicking a button. For example, you might want to respond to the selection of a country in an address form by changing the locale and reloading the current page to better accommodate your users.