JavaServer Faces (JSF) has rapidly become an essential technology for richly interactive web applications. A major feature of JSF includes its ability to facilitate and encourage the creation and use of highly customizable reusable components. As JSF expands its adoption, the issues relating to the when and how to create these components has become a more critical consideration for many development teams.

When combined with AJAX, the capabilities of re-usable components, Eclipse, and MySQL, users can create advanced technology more rapidly than ever before. Please join Max Katz as he discusses how leading companies have been able to harness the power of these technologies to create a state-of-the art business applications offering a new wave of functionality while dramatically improving their web-based application development processes.

This interactive discussion will challenge participants to explore their own development strategies and consider alternatives utilizing component-based web development leveraging open source.