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Kito Mann

Editor-in-chief of JSF Central and the author of JSF in Action

Kito D. Mann is editor-in-chief of JSF Central and the author of JavaServer Faces in Action (Manning). He is a member of several Java Community Process expert groups (including JSF and Portlets), and an internationally recognized speaker. Kito is also the Principal Consultant at Virtua specializing in enterprise application architecture, training, development, mentoring, and JSF product strategy. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.























Presentations by Kito Mann

Exploring the JavaServer Faces Ecosystem

This session examines the ecosystem of products built on JavaServer Faces."

JSF 2.0 Preview

JavaServer Faces, the standard Java web development framework, has gained quite a few fans and detractors over the past few years. Regardless of the camp, most agree that the framework can improve. JSF 2.0, currently under development through the Java Community Process, aims to be a dramatic leap forward for the framework."

Scripting JavaServer Faces

With increased emphasis on scripting technologies, the Java platform is evolving to accommodate dynamic languages at all levels. While JavaServer Faces (JSF) provides a powerful UI component model, an adequate IOC framework, navigation, and several other features, it is not obvious how to build JSF applications using dynamic languages. This session examines how to integrate JSF with languages such as Ruby and Groovy. "

Simplyfing JavaServer Faces component development

The benefits of using JavaServer Faces UI components to rapidly construct complex, interactive user interfaces have become quite clear over the past couple of years. However, the standard process for developing these UI components is currently quite tedious. Fortunately, there are better solutions available."

Using Shale Test

Testing web applications, and in particular, JavaServer Faces applications, sometimes seems like a black art. For JSF, there are a couple of different approaches for unit testing. This session describes the Shale Test Framework and provides examples of how to use it."






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Our current schedule for JSF 2.0 has us handing off the spec artifacts to the JCP on 15 December
2008. That's 62 business days from today. We have 37 open spec issues, not including some ones floating around on the EG
list that I need to put into the iss...

After presenting at both the JSFOne conference and Rich Web Experience 08 conference earlier this month in Washington DC, I finally managed to upload my presentations to slideshare. Congrats to Jar Zimmermann and Kito Mann for running excellent conference...

Exadel Fiji extends JavaServer Faces (JSF) by allowing the use of Flex
components within a JSF page. Fiji stands for "Flex and JSF Integration". When using
Fiji components, developers use Flex with the same component-based ...

I received a tip from Matthias Weflendorf that Apple is using JSF for its online rebate site. A quick View Source shows the presence of
our javax.faces.ViewState hidden field. Inspection of the value of that field leads me to believe they are using Mojar...

At JSFOne, someone suggested modifying the navigation rule system such that if the to-view-id is absent from a navigation-case, the to-view-id value be inferred from the outcome.

This would mean the following is valid:

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