Does the world really and truly need another JavaServer Faces book? I was fairly well convinced the answer could only be a resounding “no!” After all, there are a good half-dozen books out in stores today, by a whole host of Web luminaries, and I’ve even personally helped as a technical reviewer on half of those. So what more could really be said on the subject? | THE EXPERT S VOICE- IN JAVA Pro JSF and Ajax Building Rich Internet Components Jonas Jacobi and John R. Fallows faevofd by Atom HSrw. JSF Expert Group Member Apress Pro JSF and Ajax Building Rich Internet Components Jonas Jacobi and John R. Fallows Apress Pro JSF and Ajax Building Rich Internet Components Copyright 2006 by Jonas Jacobi and John R. Fallows All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording or by any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. ISBN-13 978-1-59059-580-0 ISBN-10 1-59059-580-7 Printed and bound in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Trademarked names may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name we use the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Lead Editor Tony Davis Technical Reviewers Peter Lubbers Kito D. Mann Matthias Wessendorf Editorial Board Steve Anglin Dan Appleman Ewan Buckingham Gary Cornell Jason Gilmore Jonathan Hassell James Huddleston Chris Mills Matthew Moodie Dominic Shakeshaft Jim Sumser Matt Wade Project Managers Beckie Stones Elizabeth Seymour Copy Edit Manager Nicole LeClerc Copy Editor Kim Wimpsett Assistant Production Director Kari Brooks-Copony Production Editor Laura Cheu Compositor Molly Sharp ContentWorks Proofreader Elizabeth Berry Indexer Carol Burbo Artist Kinetic Publishing Services LLC Cover Designer Kurt Krames Manufacturing Director Tom Debolski Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 233 Spring Street 6th Floor New York NY 10013. Phone 1-800-SPRINGER fax 201-348-4505 e-mail orders-ny@ or visit http . For information on translations please contact Apress directly at 2560 Ninth Street Suite 219 .