JavaServer Faces 2.0:
The Complete Reference
About the Authors
Ed Burns is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems.
Ed has worked on a wide variety of client- and server-
side Web technologies since 1994, including NCSA
Mosaic, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat,
and most recently, JavaServer Faces. Ed is currently the
co-spec lead for JavaServer Faces. Find Ed’s blog and
other goodies at http://purl.oclc.org/NET/edburns/.
Chris Schalk is a Developer Advocate and works
to promote Google’s APIs and technologies. He is
currently engaging the international Web development
community with the new Google App Engine and
OpenSocial APIs. Before joining Google, Chris was a
Principal Product Manager and technology evangelist
at Oracle in the Java development tools group.
About the Contributing Author
Neil Griffin represents Liferay on the JSR 314
(JSF 2.0) expert group and has 15 years of professional
experience in software engineering. As a Liferay
project committer, Neil is responsible for interfacing
with ICEsoft in order to ensure that ICEfaces
integrates properly within Liferay Portal. Neil is the
cofounder of the PortletFaces project, which makes
JSF portlet development easier. He has authored
training classes for Liferay and ICEsoft and has
served as a consultant for clients implementing
JSF and ICEfaces portlets.
JavaServer Faces 2.0:
The Complete Reference
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Chris Schalk
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