David Geary - Co-author of "Core JSF"

A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces (JSF). David's Graphic Java Swing was one of the best-selling Java books of all time and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman, is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces. David was one of a handful of experts on the JSF Expert Group that actively defined the standard Java-based web application framework. Besides serving on the JSF and JSTL Expert Groups, David has contributed to open-source projects and co-authored Sun's Web Developer Certification Exam. He invented the Struts Template library which was the precursor to Tiles, a popular framework for composing web pages from JSP fragments, was the 2nd Struts committer and is currently an active contributor to Shale. David also provides consulting and training services for server-side Java and Ruby on Rails. A regular on the NFJS tour, David also speaks at other conferences such as JavaOne and JavaPolis. In 2005, David was also recognized as a JavaOne Rock Star at JavaOne for his Shale presentation with Craig McClanahan. At NFJS, David loves to interact with attendees and is known for his sense of humor, dazzling demos and electrifying live-coding sessions.

• RAD JSF with SEAM, Facelets, and Ajax4jsf, Part One
• RAD JSF with SEAM, Facelets, and Ajax4jsf, Part Two
• The Google Web Toolkit, Part One
• The Google Web Toolkit, Part Two

RAD JSF with SEAM, Facelets, and Ajax4jsf, Part One
In this session, see how you can get Ruby On Rails-like productivity on the Java side of the house with this compelling combination of technologies.

JSF has been out for nearly three years now, and in many respects, the JSF specification has become a bit long in the tooth. Fortunately, the open source community has picked up the ball in a big way. In this 2-session presentation, we will explore three open source projects based on JSF--Seam, Facelets, and Ajax4jsf-- that will propel you into the stratosphere of productivity.

Seam is a framework from JBoss that combines the JSF and EJB3.0/Hibernate 3.0 frameworks into one component model. That means you only have to learn one framework to build compelling web applications.

RAD JSF with SEAM, Facelets, and Ajax4jsf, Part Two
A continuation of a 2-session presentation on Seam, Facelets, and Ajax4jsf.

In the second part of this 2-session presentation, we'll turn our attention to Facelets and how you can use this compelling display technology with Seam.

We will also discuss Ajax4jsf and demonstrate how you can use that framework to create rich, interactive user interfaces for your JSF-based web applications.

This is the first of a two-part session, where we'll focus mostly on the Seam framework.

The Google Web Toolkit, Part One
Developing highly interactive web applications, for the most part requires knowledge of a wide array of technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XMLHttpRequest, JSP, JSF, etc.

With the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Google turns that notion of development on its head. Instead, you implement Ajax applications by writing almost entirely in Java. You use an AWT-like API, which the Google compiler compiles to JavaScript that runs on the client.

In the early days of Java, application development with the AWT was relatively simple. You had to have a decent understanding of Java and AWT fundamentals, but once equipped with such knowledge, you could dive in and develop some impressive applications.

Ten years later, we have, in so many respects, gone significantly backwards. We've shoehorned technologies such as HTML into shoes for which they were never intended, and for our efforts, we have a mismatch of disparate technologies that one needs to knit together for a truly interactive web application.

This is the first session of a two-part presentation on the GWT, where I'll concentrate on GWT basics: implementing Ajax-enabled applications in Java, internationalization, testing, and remote procedure calls.

The Google Web Toolkit, Part Two
The second part of a 2-session presentation on the Google Web Toolkit.

In this session, we'll dive deeper into the GWT and explore some of it's more advanced aspects, such as implementing custom widgets, deploying your application in a servlet container, and implementing drag and drop.