This article is meant to acquaint the reader with JavaServer Faces, commonly known as JSF. JSF technology simplifies building the user interface for web applications. It does this by providing a higher-level framework for working with your web app, repres
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At this time, there are two JSF variants: JSF early access 4 (which is included in the Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.3), and JSF 1.0 Beta. It\'s important to remember that JSF is a specification, much like J2EE. And like J2EE, there is a reference implementation from Sun, along with other implementations of the interface, such as the open source MyFaces. This article is concerned with the distinctive features of the JSF specification and its ideas, not with a particular implementation. After all, since JSF is not yet final, the specifics might yet change.
We assume the reader is already somewhat familiar with Java programming, servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSPs) and custom tag technologies. The reader should be experienced with servlet/JSP containers such as Tomcat, and design patterns such as model-view-controller (MVC).
Roles in Web-Application Development
In developing web applications, we often deal with the same problems. First off, the interface is the most frequently updated part of the application, so we want to simplify modification of the interface as much as possible. Secondly, those developing the application have significantly different skill sets — server-side programmers, HTML coders, graphic designers, etc. — and we want their work to be as independent as possible. This leads to a model-view-controller design to separate the roles.
In many organizations, the development of a web application works in a familiar manner. The designer creates a prototype, the HTML coder does everything in HTML, and the server-side programmer achieves his or her needed functionality in Java. This approach often fails badly. The designer, when creating the prototype, is limited only by his or her imagination, inadvertently causing problems for the other participants, often forcing them to start from scratch when developing a new application.
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