XPath is a language used to navigate through the XML document. It’s used to identify elements in the XML document. It is so limber that technologies like XQuery and XPointer are built on it. XPath uses path expressions to select nodes or node-sets in an XML document. These path expressions look very much like the expressions you see when you work with a traditional computer file system.
We live in an age where everything is open and innovations spring out every second. All those algorithms, all those concepts and all those frameworks are easily avalable to he who is willing to look. Unless you are not staring down from the tip of the cutting edge, you can pretty much get help on any problem. If someone had a similar problem before and you have the solution available, why re-invent the wheel..
I always wanted to do this. I always wanted to write down a detailed description of the work I do. So, here’s the deal, my task was to migrate a web application running on RichFaces 3.X to RichFaces 4.X.
Simple and clean application running on JBoss 5. Just a couple of pages and quite many validations happening with JavaScript.
I have been working with richfaces 3.X.X and recently did a migration to richfaces 4.X.X. Many changes had to be done. Many tags got renamed, many properties suffered similar fate and some tags were retired.
JSF 2.0 has introduced a wonderful concept for easy storage and easy retrieval of resources for a particular project. The project resources like css stylesheets, images and JavaScripts can be stored under a folder named ‘resources’ in the root of the web application.