The Java EE 5 Tutorial, Third Edition: For Sun Java System Application Server Platform

9. JavaServer Faces Technology JavaServer Faces technology is a server-side user interface component framework for Java technology-based web applications. The main components of JavaServer Faces technology are as follows: An API for repres...

JavaServer Faces Technology Benefits One of the greatest advantages of JavaServer Faces technology is that it offers a clean separation between behavior and presentation. Web applications built using JSP technology achieve this separation in part....

What Is a JavaServer Faces Application? For the most part, a JavaServer Faces application is like any other Java web application. A typical JavaServer Faces application includes the following pieces: A set of JSP pages (although you are not limit...

A Simple JavaServer Faces Application This section describes the general steps involved in developing a simple JavaServer Faces application from the perspective of different development roles. These roles are: Page author, who creates pages by us...

User Interface Component Model JavaServer Faces UI components are configurable, reusable elements that compose the user interfaces of JavaServer Faces applications. A component can be simple, such as a button, or compound, such as a table, which c...

Navigation Model The JavaServer Faces navigation model makes it easy to define page navigation and to handle any additional processing needed to choose the sequence in which pages are loaded. As defined by JavaServer Faces technology, navigation ...

Backing Beans A typical JavaServer Faces application includes one or more backing beans, each of which is a JavaServer Faces managed bean that is associated with the UI components used in a particular page. Managed beans are JavaBeans components (...

The Life Cycle of a JavaServer Faces Page The life cycle of a JavaServer Faces page is somewhat similar to that of a JSP page: The client makes an HTTP request for the page, and the server responds with the page translated to HTML. However, the Ja...

Further Information For further information on the technologies discussed in this tutorial see the following web sites: The JavaServer Faces 1.2 TLD documentation:http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/1.2/docs/tlddocs/index.htmlThe JavaServe...