Java Magazine - Premiere Issue 2011

JavaScript inside the page. Here is a JSF page source code snippet (index.xhtml):

<demo:chart data="#{ iceCreamSurvey.result}" response="#{ iceCreamSurvey.reply( param.input)}" />

<h:outputScript
library="javax.faces"
name="jsf.js" target="head"/>
We need to further map the request
parameter input as well as the response
attribute exposed by our custom chart
tag. There are several options to do this.
One way is to utilize a JSF 2.0 enhance-
ment that allows EL action binding to
take variables (see Listing 12).

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Integrating with JavaFX

We can similarly implement the chart application in JavaFX (see Figure 2).

Listing 14 shows the JavaFX source
code ( demo.piechart.Main.FX). The
pie chart data is provided by function
getChartData(), as seen in Listing 15.

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or JavaFX is used to provide the chart is an implementation detail and is totally transparent to the consuming page.

on encoding, decoding, and view state tracking. In particular, we created a custom component to encapsulate the embedding of Flex and JavaFX. ●

chocolate

30%

vanilla

60%

chart.refresh? chart.refresh(response) : chart.script.refresh(response)

Conclusion

In this article, we took advantage of new features in JSF 2.0 to integrate Adobe Flex and JavaFX into our JSF applications. These new capabilities free us from the need to take care of plumbing