I'm pleased to announce the new JSF 2.0 Complete Reference book by Ed Burns and Chris Schalk, published by McGraw-Hill. During the planning stages, Ed asked me to be a contributing author and help bring the first edition of the book up-to-date with JSF 2.0, and also to write a JSF Portlet Appendix.

As listed in the Table of Contents, Appendix A discusses the following Topics:

• Overview of Portlet 1.0 and 2.0
  • Portlet Lifecycle
  • Portlet Modes
  • Portlet Window States
  • Portlet Preferences
  • Inter-Portlet Communication
• JSF Portlet Development
  • JSF Portlet Bridges
  • JSF Portlet View Handlers
  • JSF ExernalContext and the Portlet API
  • JSF and Portlet Preferences
  • JSF and Inter-Portlet Communication
• ICEfaces Portlet Development
  • ICEfaces Ajax with Partial Submit
  • ICEfaces Direct-to-DOM RenderKit
  • The ice:portlet Tag
  • ICEfaces 1.x Portlet Bridge
  • ICEfaces 1.x D2DFaceletViewHandler
  • ICEfaces 1.x and Portlet Window States
  • ICEfaces Portlets and Concurrent DOM Views
  • ICEfaces 1.x Extended Request Scope
  • ICEfaces Ajax Push and Inter-Portlet Communication
  • ICEfaces Themes and Portal Themes
  • ICEfaces Themes and Liferay Themes
  • ICEfaces Ajax Bridge and Liferay Portal
  • ICEfaces Portlets and Liferay Request Attributes
• PortletFaces
  • Downloading PortletFaces
  • PortletFacesContext
  • PortletFaces Tags
  • PortletFaces and Portlet Preferences
  • PortletFaces and Expression Language Additions
  • PortletFaces and Localization
  • Liferay Language Portlet Integration
  • Improved Integration Between Liferay and ICEfaces 1.x

This week (Feb 2nd to Feb 5th) Ed Burns & Chris Schalk will be helping to answer questions about the new book at JavaRanch. In addition, JavaRanch will be giving away a free copy of the book.

Finally I'd like to express my gratitude to Liferay, ICEsoft, Mimacom, and Triton for their generous support in making the JSF Portlet Appendix possible.