[ANN] Book examples available

Question

In case you're interested in examples of a fairly complex "real-world" internationalized JSF application with scrollable, sortable and editable tables, and custom components/renderers for tabbed panels, a tree control, and a few other cool things, you may want to download the examples for my upcoming JSF book. Binaries and source code is available at http://www.hansbergsten.com/.
The book should be in the stores next week.

Answer 1

Hi Hans,
Thanks for your response. I looked up your example codebase, and have tried to follow it as closely as possible for enabling valueChangeEvents once Enter-key is presses from the InputText field, but I am still getting no callbacks (in the fastProductPageBean). I would appreciate if you could tell me what I am doing wrong here.
My code is as below:
1. the jsf file is as below:
<f:view>
<h:form>
<h:dataTable value="#{FastProductPageBeanList.dataModel}" var="fastProductPageBean"
headerClass="tableHeader"
rowClasses="oddRows,evenRows">
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Contract Name"/>
</f:facet>
<h:outputText id="contractName" value="#{fastProductPageBean.contractName}"/>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Exp. Date"/>
</f:facet>
<h:outputText id="expiryDate" value="#{fastProductPageBean.expiryDate}"/>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Fra Date"/>
</f:facet>
<h:outputText id="fraDate" value="#{fastProductPageBean.fraDate}"/>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Price"/>
</f:facet>
<h:outputText id="price" value="#{fastProductPageBean.price}"/>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Bid"/>
</f:facet>
<h:inputText id="bid" size="8" value="#{fastProductPageBean.bidVolume}"
styleClass="textField" valueChangeListener="#{fastProductPageBean.handleBidOrderChangeEvent}">
</h:inputText>
</h:column>
<h:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Ask"/>
</f:facet>
<h:inputText id="ask" size="8" value="#{fastProductPageBean.askVolume}"
styleClass="textField" valueChangeListener="#{fastProductPageBean.handleAskOrderChangeEvent}" />
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>
</h:form>
</f:view>
2. the managed bean declaration is as below:
<managed-bean>
<description> The FAST product-page backing file mean </description>
<managed-bean-name>FastProductPageBeanList</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>com.tullib.otcweb.handlers.fast.FastProductPageBeanList </managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope> session </managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>
3. the backing javabeans are as below:
public class FastProductPageBeanList implements java.io.Serializable{
private DataModel dataModel;
public FastProductPageBeanList() {}
public DataModel getDataModel() {
return dataModel;
public void setDataModel(final DataModel dataModel) {
this.dataModel = dataModel;
and,
public class FastProductPageBean implements java.io.Serializable{
public static final String BID_ORDER_PREFIX = "bid";
public static final String ASK_ORDER_PREFIX = "ask";
public static final String KEY_GENERATION_DELIMITER="$";
private String contractName;
private String expiryDate;
private String fraDate;
private String price;
private String bidVolume;
private String askVolume;
public FastProductPageBean() {}
public FastProductPageBean(String contractName,
String expiryDate,
String fraDate,
String price,
IFASTOrder bidOrder,
IFASTOrder askOrder) {
this.contractName = contractName;
this.expiryDate = expiryDate;
this.fraDate = fraDate;
this.price = price;
if(bidOrder != null)
bidVolume = String.valueOf(bidOrder.getVolume());
if(askOrder != null)
askVolume = String.valueOf(askOrder.getVolume());
public String getBidVolume() {
return bidVolume;
public void setBidVolume(String bidVolume) {
this.bidVolume = bidVolume;
System.out.println("Contract = " + contractName + ", New bid amount is = " + bidVolume);
public String getAskVolume() {
return askVolume;
public void setAskVolume(String askVolume) {
this.askVolume = askVolume;
System.out.println("Contract = " + contractName + ", New ask amount is = " + askVolume);
public String getContractName() {
return contractName;
public void setContractName(String contractName) {
this.contractName = contractName;
public String getExpiryDate() {
return expiryDate;
public void setExpiryDate(String expiryDate) {
this.expiryDate = expiryDate;
public String getFraDate() {
return fraDate;
public void setFraDate(String fraDate) {
this.fraDate = fraDate;
public String getPrice() {
return price;
public void setPrice(String price) {
this.price = price;
public void handleBidOrderChangeEvent(ValueChangeEvent event)
throws AbortProcessingException {
if (null != event.getNewValue()) {
ExternalContext ctx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext();
ctx.log("Received new BidOrder for amount = " + event.getNewValue() + " for product =" + OTCProduct.FAST);
public void handleAskOrderChangeEvent(ValueChangeEvent event)
throws AbortProcessingException {
if (null != event.getNewValue()) {
ExternalContext ctx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext();
ctx.log("Received new AskOrder for amount = " + event.getNewValue() + " for product =" + OTCProduct.FAST);
Thanks a lot. I'll appreciate your help.
Deepak