Oleg Varaksin - PrimeFaces Cookbook

Mert alkan is a Principle Software Architect living in Ankara, Turkey. He has over 10 years of expertise in Software Development and he has mainly worked on architectural design of Enterprise Web Applications with specialty in Java. He is also an open source advocate for software projects such as PrimeFaces, and has also been a committer and founder to various others. He shares his knowledge and ideas at local and international conferences such as JSFDays 2008, JDC 2010, CeTURK 2010, and Gelecex 2012. He is also a member of OpenLogic Expert Community and Apache Software Foundation.

I would like to thank my family, my beloved, our advisers at Packt Publishing, Usha Iyer and Abhishek Kori, my good old friend aatay ivici, and our reviewers Andy Bailey and Hebert Coelho de Oliveira. These people accompanied us during the entire writing process and made the book publication possible with their support, suggestions, and reviews.

Oleg Varaksin is a Senior Software Engineer living in the Black Forest, Germany. He is a graduate computer scientist who studied Informatics at Russian and German universities. His main occupation and "daily bread" in the last 6 to 7 years has consisted of building web applications based on Struts, JSP, JSF, Spring, and jQuerymostly document management systems. He is an experienced JSF expert and has been working with the component library PrimeFaces since its beginning in 2009. He is also a well-known member of the PrimeFaces community and co-creator of the PrimeFaces Extensions projectadditional JSF 2 components for PrimeFaces. Besides these mentioned technologies, he has worked as a Frontend Developer with many other web and JS frameworksGWT, Prototype, YUI Library, and so onand implemented his own AJAX framework before all the hype about AJAX began.

Oleg normally shares the knowledge he has acquired on his blog http://ovaraksin.blogspot.com.

I would like to thank my family, especially my wife Veronika, our advisers from Packt Publishing, Usha Iyer and Abhishek Kori, and our reviewer Andy Bailey and the PrimeFaces project lead aatay ivici. These people accompanied us during the entire writing process and made the book publication possible with their support, suggestions, and reviews.

Andy Bailey was born in the United Kingdom in 1964 and after several years' hiatus doing various jobs and conducting various training courses, he finally completed his degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sussex in 1996.

He emigrated from the UK to Germany after completing his degree and has been working on various projects both as a freelancer and a normal employee in a variety of fields. Andy has been involved with Java since 1995 and has worked on desktop, backend, and web applications since then. He has also dabbled in ASP.NET and SharePoint.

He is married, has two children, a cat, a varying population of African Giant Snails, and a Jaguar.

He is currently employed by a world leader in potato harvesting equipment, to develop web applications using the J2EE platform with PrimeFaces as the primary component library and SharePoint-based applications in C#.

This is the first time he has been involved in the publication of a book.

A lot of thanks should go to the PrimeFaces development team for producing what has become a leading component library for JSF-based applications. Far from resting on their laurels, they are very diligent about making the library run stably and are always looking for ways to expand and improve the things that PrimeFaces is capable of doing.

I was very pleased and happy to collaborate on this book, all the more so because the authors and the publisher trusted me on what is my first book as a reviewer.

Last but not least, thanks should go to my wife and kids for giving me the time and the peace to work.

Hebert Coelho de Oliveira has been developing systems for more than 10 years, and is working as Java Senior / Team Leader at Credilink, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has a Postgraduate Degree in Software Engineering from MIT, has completed four Java certifications (SCJP, SCWCD, OCBCD, and OCJPAD), and is studying to get the Web Services certification.

He is the creator of the blog http://uaihebert.com, which has been visited by people from more than 155 different countries and has had more than 300,000 page views in two years.

He has worked on mini books such as JSF Tips and JPA for beginners , posted in the blog.

I would like to thank God for my knowledge and health. To my wife, who has the most beautiful smile on Earth, to my mom and dad for supporting me, and I cannot forget my sister who is always mad at me.