JavaServer Faces or Struts - New insights anyone?
Hello Everyone:
JSP or Struts???!! I'm really lost.
I've read almost every posting on the subject (on this and other forums), yet, I couldn't come with a solid conclusion (may be only inclinations).
I've started developing my very first real-world web application which is to be up and running by December 2003. I've started reading on both Struts and JavaServer Faces so as to adopt either in that application.
What complicates things is that I'm a new comer to the web-application world in general (let alone Struts and JSF).
I'm inclined to use JSF (as it seems that it would be gaining more support and popularity in the near future), yet, It's still in the EA form, while Struts is matured and already popular.
I'm in need of a Mentor's advice to direct me to the suitable technology as I regard this first project to be both an investment into my career and a robust/reliable front end to my capabilities.
Appreciate your responses and suggestions. I also appreciate all your previous posts (especially Craig's ones), and apologize if this is an old topic.
Kindest regards
You must have read my posts then.
I think JSF should be ALLWAYS compared to
http://borland.com/products/downloads/download_csharpbuilder.html which is free (Borland C#) or
http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/guidedtour/getstarted/tooloverview.aspx
at all times, and people should pick the one that is cheaper in production or faster to develop on.
It would be great to read someplace feature/cost comparison to
http://borland.com/products/downloads/download_csharpbuilder.html
I think if people are using EJB and/or Blueprints, they should use JSF (but wait till version 2.0?)
If they are using Windows Servers, they should use Borland C#
If you like JSF design and would like open source, this is most like JSF, IMO (note that it could support standards like XUL or X-Forms or WS/SOA):
http://jakarta.apache.org/ecs
My choice is this via SOA:
http://examples.macromedia.com/petmarket/store.html
Struts does have 6 books out and at least 4 places that offer training on it, and a production track record, it is an open standard, everyone (WW2, Spring, etc.) allways starts w/ "We are like Struts,... only better".
.V
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The sources for this package are in the Struts CVS repository, in the "contrib/struts-faces" directory, and will be included in the source nightly distributions starting with the 20030307 version. It is not currently planned to include the struts-faces integration library with binary distributions of Struts 1.1, since it is still an EA quality release.
See the README.txt file (included in the nightly build) for more information on running the example application and using the integration library in your own applications.What are the reasons not to have extended
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JavaServer Faces v1.0 tutorial
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Selecting the JavaServer Faces in the Frameworks list diables FINISH button
I create a new Web Application in Netbeans 5.5.1 by clicking the new project item from the FILE pull down list. I complete steps 1 and 2 and continue to step 3, FRAMEWORKS. A list of possible frameworks are listed with unchecked checkboxes. I highlight the JavaServer Faces and put a check in the checkbox. As soon as the checkbox is checked, the FINISH button becomes disabled. If I uncheck the JavaServer Faces, the FINISH button is enabled.
What do I do to allow JavaServer Faces when creating a new web application project?
It is not only the JavaServer Faces checkbox that disables the FINIISH button, ALL of the frameworks listed disable the FINISH button when I check them.Resolution: In Netbeans 5, click on the TOOLS menu pull down list. In that list, select Module Manager. A node listing of modules is displayed. Scroll down to the WEB node and click on the plus (+) to list the web modules. Uncheck the GWT4NB in the Active column. In my case it was version 1.3.4. Also uncheck the Struts Support in the active column, my version was1.3.30.1
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JavaServer Faces Unit Test Framework
Based on my knowledge, there isn't any handy JSF Unit test tools. To facilitate UI developers and QAs to do test, I have created a prototype project to evaluate a solution.
For a Simple JSF enabled JSP file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jsp:root version="1.2" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page">
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8" />
<f:view>
<h:form>
<h:outputText value="Please input:"/>
<h:inputText id="input1"/>
<br/>
<h:outputText value="Please input a integer:"/>
<h:inputText style="width:50px;" converter="javax.faces.Integer"/>
<h:commandButton value="Submit"/>
</h:form>
</f:view>
</jsp:root>writing a HttpUnit to this page is obviously difficult:
1) Hard to pin-point the html element rendered by input1, because up-level NamingContainer h:form is missing id.
2) More difficult to find the second InputText, because missing two ids.
3) How to assert if the converter really works or not, we can't assert any object in PageBean by HttpUnit.
4) Much more difficult to find those html element if there are several level NamingContainer, such as the component nested within "for-loop".
I perfer not to write HttpUnit and seperate JUnit to PageBean, so if the follow JSP can be used in both test and production environment, work will be much easier:
* test1.jsp
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jsp:root version="1.2" xmlns:test="http://www.yourcompany.com/jsf/test" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page">
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8" />
<f:view>
<test:parameter name="abc" value="def"/><!-- setting request parameter -->
<h:form>
<h:outputText value="Please input:"/>
<h:inputText>
<test:set value="hello"
/> <!-- emulate inputing "hello" to the text box -->
<test:assert phase="afterUpdateModelValues" description="InputText1" var="input1" value="#{input1=='hello'}"/><!-- you can try other JSF phases as well, here var "input1" is parent jsf component -->
<test:assert description="InputText1" var="input1" value="#{input1=='hello'}"/>
<!-- use default phase "afterRenderResponse", here var "input1" is HtmlElement fetched from rendered page by HttpUnit -->
</h:inputText>
<br/>
<h:inputText style="width:50px;" converter="javax.faces.Integer">
<test:set actions="all" value="123"/>
<test:assert phase="afterUpdateModelValues" description="Input2 Class Name" var="input2CN" value="#{input2CN.class.name == 'java.lang.Integer'}"/>
<test:assert description="InputText2 value in afterRenderResponse phase" var="input2" value="#{input2=='123'}"/>
<test:assert description="InputText2 Style" var="input2Style" valueAttribute="style" value="#{input2Style=='width:20px;height:25px;'}"/>
</h:inputText>
<br/>
<h:commandButton value="Submit">
<test:action description="Test Sumbit"/><!-- support multi actions -->
</h:commandButton>
</h:form>
</f:view>
</jsp:root> For production jsp you can use normal url, http://server:port/yourapp/faces/test1.jsp, those test:xxx components won't do anything.
For testing a single page, http://server:port/yourapp/faces/TestAction?view=/test1.jsp
For testing more pages, http://server:port/yourapp/faces/TestAction?suite=/suite1.xml and write file:
* suite1.xml
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<TestSuite>
<page>/test1.jsp</page>
<page>/test2.jsp</page>
</TestSuite> After running this test suite in sun jsf1.0 runtime, the result comes:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Test suite="/suite1.xml">
<Page id="/test1.jsp">
<Action id="_id13" time="0 hour(s) 0 minute(s) 0 second(s) 31 millisecond(s)" description="Test Sumbit">
<Assert id="_id5" description="InputText1">
<afterUpdateModelValues pass="true" />
</Assert>
<Assert id="_id9" description="Input2 Class Name">
<afterUpdateModelValues pass="true" />
</Assert>
<Assert id="_id6" description="InputText1">
<afterRenderResponse pass="true" />
</Assert>
<Assert id="_id10" description="InputText2 value in afterRenderResponse phase">
<afterRenderResponse pass="true" />
</Assert>
<Assert id="_id11" description="InputText2 Style">
<afterRenderResponse pass="false" />
</Assert>
</Action>
</Page>
<Page id="/test2.jsp">
</Page>
</Test> So far, if you think this idea is good for you, you can get the src code at the end of this post.
Furthermore, you can make improvement to this as well, such as implement concurrent and repeatable test.
Anyway, don't expect this two days prototype is quite robust, and coding is not my day to day work either.
If you have any questions or idea, please drop me a line: [email protected], [email protected]
* jsftest.tld
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE taglib PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JSP Tag Library 1.2//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-jsptaglibrary_1_2.dtd">
<taglib>
<tlib-version>1.0</tlib-version>
<jsp-version>1.2</jsp-version>
<short-name>test</short-name>
<uri>http://www.yourcompany.com/jsf/test</uri>
<display-name>JSF Test Tag Library</display-name>
<description></description>
<tag>
<name>action</name>
<tag-class>com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.taglib.ActionTag</tag-class>
<body-content>empty</body-content>
<display-name>Action</display-name>
<description>JSF test submit action</description>
<attribute>
<name>binding</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>id</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>description</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
</tag>
<tag>
<name>assert</name>
<tag-class>com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.taglib.AssertTag</tag-class>
<body-content>empty</body-content>
<display-name>Assert</display-name>
<description>JSF test assertion</description>
<attribute>
<name>binding</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>id</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>actions</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
<description>default value is "all", means all actions, use "," as delimeter</description>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>phase</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
<description>effective value can be anyone of: afterRestoreView,
beforeApplyRequestValues, afterApplyRequestValues,
beforeProcessValidations, afterProcessValidations,
beforeUpdateModelValues, afterUpdateModelValues,
beforeInvokeApplication, afterInvokeApplication,
beforeRenderResponse, afterRenderResponse
The default value is afterRenderResponse, this assertion will be applied to HtmlElement rather than JSF Component.
</description>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>value</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
<description>must be boolean, means pass test or not</description>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>var</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
<description>variable name, used to define a request attribute which can be used in valueBinding language</description>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>valueAttribute</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
<description>The default is "value".
var will be bound to this attribute.
var will be bound to the rendered HtmlElement if the phase="afterRenderResponse",
otherwise var will be bound to parent component.
</description>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>postback</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
<description>The default is "true".
Currently only support true;
</description>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>description</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
</tag>
<tag>
<name>parameter</name>
<tag-class>com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.taglib.ParameterTag</tag-class>
<body-content>empty</body-content>
<display-name>Set</display-name>
<description>JSF test request parameter setter</description>
<attribute>
<name>binding</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>id</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>actions</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
<description>default value is "all", means all actions, use "," as delimeter</description>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>name</name>
<required>true</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>value</name>
<required>true</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
</tag>
<tag>
<name>set</name>
<tag-class>com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.taglib.SetTag</tag-class>
<body-content>empty</body-content>
<display-name>Set</display-name>
<description>JSF test component value setter</description>
<attribute>
<name>binding</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>id</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>actions</name>
<required>false</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
<description>default value is "all", means all actions, use "," as delimeter</description>
</attribute>
<attribute>
<name>value</name>
<required>true</required>
<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
</attribute>
</tag>
</taglib>
* faces-config.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE faces-config PUBLIC
"-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JavaServer Faces Config 1.1//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-facesconfig_1_1.dtd">
<faces-config>
<component>
<component-type>com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.Action</component-type>
<component-class>com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.component.Action</component-class>
</component>
<component>
<component-type>com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.Assert</component-type>
<component-class>com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.component.Assert</component-class>
</component>
<component>
<component-type>com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.Parameter</component-type>
<component-class>com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.component.Parameter</component-class>
</component>
<component>
<component-type>com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.Set</component-type>
<component-class>com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.component.Set</component-class>
</component>
<lifecycle>
<phase-listener>com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.listener.TestPhaseListener</phase-listener>
<phase-listener>com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.listener.TestAssertPhaseListener</phase-listener>
</lifecycle>
</faces-config>
* TestPhaseListener.java
package com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.listener;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import javax.faces.application.ViewHandler;
import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;
import javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.faces.context.ResponseWriter;
import javax.faces.event.PhaseEvent;
import javax.faces.event.PhaseId;
import javax.faces.event.PhaseListener;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.w3c.dom.Text;
import com.meterware.httpunit.HTMLElement;
import com.meterware.httpunit.PostMethodWebRequest;
import com.meterware.httpunit.WebConversation;
import com.meterware.httpunit.WebRequest;
import com.meterware.httpunit.WebResponse;
import com.sun.faces.renderkit.html_basic.HtmlResponseWriter;
import com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.component.UIIterate;
import com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.component.Action;
import com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.component.Assert;
import com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.component.Parameter;
import com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.component.Set;
import com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.report.Constants;
import com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.report.TestAction;
import com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.report.TestAssert;
import com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.report.TestPage;
import com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.report.TestReport;
import com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.util.ComponentUtil;
public class TestPhaseListener implements PhaseListener {
public TestPhaseListener() {
super();
// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
/* (non-Javadoc)
* @see javax.faces.event.PhaseListener#afterPhase(javax.faces.event.PhaseEvent)
public void afterPhase(PhaseEvent event) {
if(-1 != event.getFacesContext().getViewRoot().getViewId().indexOf("TestAction")){
FacesContext context = event.getFacesContext();
ViewHandler vh = context.getApplication().getViewHandler();
HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest)context.getExternalContext().getRequest();
TestReport report = new TestReport();
request.getSession().setAttribute(Constants.TEST_REPORT_SESSION_ATTRIBUTE_ID, report);
String suitefile = request.getParameter("suite");
List pages = new ArrayList(5);
if(suitefile==null){
pages.add(request.getParameter("view"));
}else{
report.setSuiteId(suitefile);
try{
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setValidating(false);
factory.setNamespaceAware(false);
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
InputStream ins = context.getExternalContext().getResourceAsStream(suitefile);
Document doc = builder.parse(ins);
NodeList pageNodes = doc.getElementsByTagName("page");
for(int i=0; i<pageNodes.getLength(); i++){
pages.add(((Text)pageNodes.item(i).getFirstChild()).getData());
}catch(Exception e){
report.setException(e);
for(Iterator p=pages.iterator(); p.hasNext(); ){
String viewId = (String)p.next();
UIViewRoot view = vh.restoreView(context, viewId);
if(view==null){
try{
WebConversation wc = new WebConversation();
wc.putCookie("JSESSIONID", request.getSession().getId());
String url = getUrl(request, viewId);
WebResponse wr = wc.getResponse(url);
}catch(Exception e){
report.setException(e);
view = vh.restoreView(context, viewId);
try{
Method doActionMethod = TestPhaseListener.class.getDeclaredMethod("doAction", new Class[]{Action.class, FacesContext.class, HttpServletRequest.class, UIViewRoot.class, String.class});
ComponentUtil.iterateComponent(view, Action.class, this, doActionMethod, new Object[]{context, request, view, viewId});
}catch(Exception e){
report.setException(e);
//render report
renderReport(context, report);
request.getSession().removeAttribute(Constants.TEST_REPORT_SESSION_ATTRIBUTE_ID);
context.responseComplete();
/* (non-Javadoc)
* @see javax.faces.event.PhaseListener#beforePhase(javax.faces.event.PhaseEvent)
public void beforePhase(PhaseEvent event) {
/* (non-Javadoc)
* @see javax.faces.event.PhaseListener#getPhaseId()
public PhaseId getPhaseId() {
return PhaseId.RESTORE_VIEW;
private String getUrl(HttpServletRequest request, String viewId){
return request.getScheme()+"://" + request.getServerName()+":"+request.getServerPort()+request.getContextPath()+"/faces"+viewId;
protected void doAction(Action action, FacesContext context, HttpServletRequest request, UIViewRoot view, String viewId){
try{
WebConversation wc = new WebConversation();
wc.putCookie("JSESSIONID", request.getSession().getId());
String url = getUrl(request, viewId);
WebRequest wrq = new PostMethodWebRequest(url);
wrq.setParameter(Constants.TEST_VIEW_PARAMETER, viewId);
wrq.setParameter(Constants.TEST_ACTION_PARAMETER, action.getId());
//set parameters
try{
Method doParameterMethod = TestPhaseListener.class.getDeclaredMethod("doParameter", new Class[]{Parameter.class, String.class, WebRequest.class});
ComponentUtil.iterateComponent(view, Parameter.class, this, doParameterMethod, new Object[]{action.getId(), wrq});
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
//set attributes
//set values
try{
Method doSetMethod = TestPhaseListener.class.getDeclaredMethod("doSet", new Class[]{Set.class, FacesContext.class, String.class, WebRequest.class});
ComponentUtil.iterateComponent(view, Set.class, this, doSetMethod, new Object[]{context, action.getId(), wrq});
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
//do test actions
String formId = null;
if(formId!=null)wrq.removeParameter(formId);
formId = ComponentUtil.getForm(action).getClientId(context);
wrq.setParameter(formId, action.getParent().getClientId(context));
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
WebResponse wrp = wc.getResponse(wrq);
//System.out.println(wrp.getText());
//do assertions
try{
Method doAssertMethod = TestPhaseListener.class.getDeclaredMethod("doAssert", new Class[]{Assert.class, FacesContext.class, HttpServletRequest.class, String.class, String.class, String.class, WebResponse.class});
ComponentUtil.iterateComponent(view, Assert.class, this, doAssertMethod, new Object[]{context, request, viewId, action.getId(), action.getDescription(), wrp});
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
TestReport report = (TestReport)request.getSession().getAttribute(Constants.TEST_REPORT_SESSION_ATTRIBUTE_ID);
report.getPage(viewId).getAction(action.getId()).setTime(System.currentTimeMillis()-start);
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
protected void doParameter(Parameter parameter, String actionId, WebRequest wrq){
if("all".equals(parameter.getActions()) || Arrays.asList(parameter.getActions().split(",")).contains(actionId))wrq.setParameter(parameter.getName(), parameter.getValue());
protected void doSet(Set set, FacesContext context, String actionId, WebRequest wrq){
if("all".equals(set.getActions()) || Arrays.asList(set.getActions().split(",")).contains(actionId))wrq.setParameter(set.getParent().getClientId(context), set.getValue());
protected void doAssert(Assert ast, FacesContext context, HttpServletRequest request, String viewId, String actionId, String actionDescription, WebResponse wrp){
if(("all".equals(ast.getActions()) || Arrays.asList(ast.getActions().split(",")).contains(actionId)) && "afterRenderResponse".equals(ast.getPhase())){
TestReport report = (TestReport)request.getSession().getAttribute(Constants.TEST_REPORT_SESSION_ATTRIBUTE_ID);
try{
HTMLElement targetElement = wrp.getElementWithID(ast.getParent().getClientId(context));
if(targetElement==null)targetElement = wrp.getElementsWithName(ast.getParent().getClientId(context))[0];
if(targetElement==null)request.setAttribute(ast.getVar(), null);
else request.setAttribute(ast.getVar(), targetElement.getAttribute(ast.getValueAttribute()));
//report assert
report.report(viewId, actionId, actionDescription, ast.getId(), ast.getDescription(), ast.getPhase(), (Boolean)ast.getValue(), null);
}catch(Exception e){
report.report(viewId, actionId, actionDescription, ast.getId(), ast.getDescription(), ast.getPhase(), Boolean.FALSE, e);
protected void renderReport(FacesContext context, TestReport report){
try{
HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse)context.getExternalContext().getResponse();
response.setContentType("text/xml; charset=UTF-8");
response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
ResponseWriter writer = new HtmlResponseWriter(response.getWriter(), null, null);
context.setResponseWriter(writer);
writer.startDocument();
writer.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\r\n");
writer.startElement("Test", null);
if(report.getSuiteId()!=null)writer.writeAttribute("suite", report.getSuiteId(), null);
for(Iterator p=report.listPages().iterator(); p.hasNext(); ){
TestPage page = (TestPage)p.next();
writer.startElement("Page", null);
writer.writeAttribute("id", page.getViewId(), null);
for(Iterator i=page.listActions().iterator(); i.hasNext(); ){
TestAction action = (TestAction)i.next();
writer.startElement("Action", null);
writer.writeAttribute("id", action.getId(), null);
writer.writeAttribute("time", getElapsedTime(action.getTime()), null);
if(action.getDescription()!=null)writer.writeAttribute("description", action.getDescription(), null);
for(Iterator j=action.getAsserts().values().iterator(); j.hasNext(); ){
TestAssert ast = (TestAssert)j.next();
writer.startElement("Assert", null);
writer.writeAttribute("id", ast.getId(), null);
if(ast.getDescription()!=null)writer.writeAttribute("description", ast.getDescription(), null);
for(Iterator k=ast.getStatus().keySet().iterator(); k.hasNext(); ){
String phase = (String)k.next();
writer.startElement(phase, null);
writer.writeAttribute("pass", ast.getStatus().get(phase).toString(), null);
writer.endElement(phase);
if(ast.getException()!=null){
writer.startElement("Exception", null);
StackTraceElement[] stack = ast.getException().getStackTrace();
for(int m=0; m<stack.length; m++){
writer.write(stack[m].toString());
writer.write("\r\n");
writer.endElement("Exception");
writer.endElement("Assert");
if(action.getException()!=null){
writer.startElement("Exception", null);
StackTraceElement[] stack = action.getException().getStackTrace();
for(int m=0; m<stack.length; m++){
writer.write(stack[m].toString());
writer.write("\r\n");
writer.endElement("Exception");
writer.endElement("Action");
if(page.getException()!=null){
writer.startElement("Exception", null);
StackTraceElement[] stack = page.getException().getStackTrace();
for(int m=0; m<stack.length; m++){
writer.write(stack[m].toString());
writer.write("\r\n");
writer.endElement("Exception");
writer.endElement("Page");
if(report.getException()!=null){
writer.startElement("Exception", null);
StackTraceElement[] stack = report.getException().getStackTrace();
for(int m=0; m<stack.length; m++){
writer.write(stack[m].toString());
writer.write("\r\n");
writer.endElement("Exception");
writer.endElement("Test");
writer.endDocument();
response.getWriter().flush();
response.getWriter().close();
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
public static String getElapsedTime(long millis) {
long hours, minutes, seconds, ms;
hours = millis / 3600000;
millis = millis - (hours * 3600000);
minutes = millis / 60000;
millis = millis - (minutes * 60000);
seconds = millis / 1000;
ms = millis - (seconds * 1000);
return hours
+ " hour(s) "
+ minutes
+ " minute(s) "
+ seconds
+ " second(s) "
+ ms
+ " millisecond(s)";
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package com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.listener;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.util.Arrays;
import javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.faces.event.PhaseEvent;
import javax.faces.event.PhaseId;
import javax.faces.event.PhaseListener;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import org.apache.commons.beanutils.PropertyUtils;
import com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.component.Assert;
import com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.report.Constants;
import com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.test.report.TestReport;
import com.yourcompany.jsf.ui.util.ComponentUtil;
public class TestAssertPhaseListener implements PhaseListener {
public TestAssertPhaseListener() {
super();
// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
/* (non-Javadoc)
* @see javax.faces.event.PhaseListener#afterPhase(javax.faces.event.PhaseEvent)
public void afterPhase(PhaseEvent event) {
if(PhaseId.RENDER_RESPONSE.equals(event.getPhaseId()))return;
iterateAssert(event, false);
/* (non-Javadoc)
* @see javax.faces.event.PhaseListener#beforePhase(javax.faces.event.PhaseEvent)
public void beforePhase(PhaseEvent event) {
if(PhaseId.RESTORE_VIEW.equals(event.getPhaseId()))return;
iterateAssert(event, true);
public PhaseId getPhaseId() {
return PhaseId.ANY_PHASE;
protected void iterateAssert(PhaseEvent event, boolean before){
FacesContext context = event.getFacesContext();
HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest)context.getExternalContext().getRequest();
String viewId = request.getParameter(Constants.TEST_VIEW_PARAMETER);
String actionId = request.getParameter(Constants.TEST_ACTION_PARAMETER);
if(actionId!=null){
TestReport report = (TestReport)request.getSession().getAttribute(Constants.TEST_REPORT_SESSION_ATTRIBUTE_ID);
UIViewRoot view = context.getViewRoot();
if(view==null)return;
try{
Method doAssertMethod = TestAssertPhaseListener.class.getDeclaredMethod("doAssert", new Class[]{Assert.class, FacesContext.class, HttpServletRequest.class, String.class, String.class, String.class});
ComponentUtil.iterateComponent(view, Assert.class, this, doAssertMethod, new Object[]{context, request, viewId, actionId, this.getAssertPhase(event.getPhaseId(), before)});
}catch(Exception e){
report.getPage(viewId).getAction(actionId).setException(e);
protected void doAssert(Assert ast, FacesContext context, HttpServletRequest request, String viewId, String actionId, String assertPhase){
if(("all".equals(ast.getActions()) || Arrays.asList(ast.getActions().split(",")).contains(actionId)) && assertPhase.equals(ast.getPhase())){
TestReport report = (TestReport)request.getSession().getAttribute(Constants.TEST_REPORT_SESSION_ATTRIBUTE_ID);
try{
request.setAttribute(ast.getVar(), PropertyUtils.getProperty(ast.getParent(), ast.getValueAttribute()));
//report assert
report.report(viewId, actionId, null, ast.getId(), ast.getDescription(), ast.getPhase(), (Boolean)ast.getValue(), null);
}catch(Exception e){
report.report(viewId, actionId, null, ast.getId(), ast.getDescription(), ast.getPhase(), Boolean.FALSE, e);
protected String getAssertPhase(PhaseId phaseId, boolean before){
String perfix = before ? "before" : "after";
if(PhaseId.RESTORE_VIEW.equals(phaseId))return perfix+"RestoreView";
if(PhaseId.APPLY_REQUEST_VALUES.equals(phaseId))return perfix+"ApplyRequestValues";
if(PhaseId.PROCESS_VALIDATIONS.equals(phaseId))return perfix+"ProcessValidations";
if(PhaseId.UPDATE_MODEL_VALUES.equals(phaseId))return perfix+"UpdateModelValues";
if(PhaseId.INVOKE_APPLICATION.equals(phaseId))return perfix+"InvokeApplication";
if(before && PhaseId.RENDER_RESPONSE.equals(phaseId))return "beforeRenderResponse";
return "";
* UIIterate.java
// This class brings "To Neoreborn:
If I understand right, Shale only provides some mock core JSF objects and extends JUnit so that you can do junit test to your java classes.
What I concern is to test Pages(JSP) rather than java classes. I want to assert component attribute values within all lifecycle including rendered HTML script. Currently, there isn't any good tools to do this kind of JSP Unit test, am I right? -
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I hope ORACLE will provide very soon some enhancement in the jdev IDE to help building jsp app with jsf tags.
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http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/htdocs/partners/addins/exchange/jsf/index.html -
[ANNOUNCE] JavaServer Faces Resources Page
Hi Everyone,
I've compiled a list of everything related to JavaServer Faces and put a page on my website for it.
Here it is:
http://www.jamesholmes.com/JavaServerFaces/
If you see anything that I've missed, feel free to drop me a line.
-James
[email protected]well did you notice that JSF EA4 has just been released ?
I have one more link (but in french) :
http://www.builder.fr/story/0,,t541-s2134284,00.html
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I know---please forgive my sarcasm. (I'm sure you've been at this point, too, in your programming career. I'll just vent a little.) I've only spent several days trying to create a simple page I could have coded in a couple of hours in any given language---Java, C++, 80x86 assembler---but not JavaServer Faces.
Has anyone created any real applications in JSF? It's practically unusable in the real world. I'm about to throw it all away for JSP and JSTL. Here's why:
* I can't pass parameters to bean methods in the expression language.
* dataTable can't create <th> except in a header facet, and a header facet can't access data being iterated.
* There's no way to specify different styles for different <th> elements in a dataTable.
* There's no way to specify a unique style (rather than the simple alternating styles) for a dataTable row.
* JSF beans aren't available to the JSTL expression language unless you go through ugly hacks (such as outputting a JSF bean method to a dummy JSTL variable) to make sure the JSF backing beans get instantiated.
* If any non-JSF stuff (including JSTL, HTML, verbatim character data, or whatever) is present in a JSF page, one has to tediously make sure that a special, seemingly-arbitrary hierarchy of subviews are in place---and even then it's not clear if you're following the spec or just managed to randomly find a combination that worked. Otherwise, all the information gets rendered out of order and out of hierarchy.
* Don't even think about getting JSTL iteration elements to work with any of this.
* commandLink still doesn't work in JSF 1.1_01.
I'd go on, but I need to go back to taking JSF out of the single page I've been working on for days.
Thanks for listening,
Garret* dataTable can't create <th> except in a header
facet, and a header facet can't access data being
iterated.I've no idea why the heck you think a header facet
should be able to access data that's being iterated.
That makes no sense to me at all. A header is
explicltly and, to me at least, obviously not part
of per-row iteration!Read both parts of that comment together---what I'm really wanting is to be able to get a <th>, and the only way to do that is with a header facet. Here's an example off the top of my head:
<h1>Book Metadata</h1>
<table>
<tr><th>Author</th> <td>Jane Doe</td></tr>
</table>
Here the row header is from a list of arbitrary book metadata---we don't know ahead of time what metadata properties the book has. Maybe it has two authors. Maybe it has five creation dates.
It seems as though your frustrations mostly boil
down to:
(1) You hate <h:dataTable>, and find it too limiting.
Well, it's one of the first JSF element's I've tried (after commandLink, of course). Maybe all of the others work just fine and are powerful.
(2) You're trying to mix JSTL and JSF, and are
surprised this doesn't work.
For #2, it's a known and much-documented thing, so I
can't understand why you're surprised.
However documented it is, I'm surprised that not only does JSF not offer equivalent functionality as JSTL, it removes the ability to use JSTL.
Garret -
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I'm very new to J2EE. I'm wondering, when should we used Java Servlet?
If we develop with JavaServer Faces technology, do we code any servlets? I came accross the FacesServlet. The book says that it is included with the JavaServer Faces API and it seems that I don't need to write any code for this class.
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You have to configure the faces servlet to a prefix path and specify it within your URLs... -
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hello all
i read "The JavaServer� Faces Technology Tutorial",and mazed about Lifecycle of a JavaServer Faces.
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