Max Katz & Ilya Shaikovsky 
Practical RichFaces 

Rich Faces 4 is a component library for Java Server Faces, and an advanced framework for easily integrating AJAX capabilities into business applications. It lets you quickly develop next-generation web applications based on JSF 2/Ajax.

In this definitive Rich Faces 4 book, instead of using JBoss Tools, the author bases all examples on Maven so that any IDE can be used—whether it’s Net Beans, Eclipse, JBoss or even Spring. 

Practical Rich Faces also describes how to best take advantage of Rich Faces—the integration of the Ajax4jsf and Rich Faces libraries—to create flexible and powerful programs. Assuming some JSF background, it shows how you can radically reduce programming time and effort to create rich AJAX-based applications.

About the author

Max Katz is a Senior Systems Engineer and Developer Advocate at Exadel. Max is a well-known speaker appearing at many conferences, webinars, and JUG meetings. Max leads Exadel s RIA and mobile strategy. Part of this role is working as the Developer Advocate for Tiggr Mobile Apps Builder (gotiggr.com), a cloud-based application for building mobile Web and native apps for any device. In addition, Max leads Exadel s open source projects (exadel.org) such as Fiji, Flamingo, and Java FX Plug-in for Eclipse. Max has been involved with Rich Faces since its inception, publishing numerous articles, providing consulting and training, and authoring the book Practical Rich Faces (Apress, 2008). Max also co-authored the DZone Rich Faces 3 Refcard and the DZone Rich Faces 4 Refcard. You can find Max’s writings about RIA and mobile technologies on his blog, mkblog.exadel.com, and you can find his thoughts about these topics and others on Twitter at @maxkatz. Max holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis and an MBA from Golden Gate University.