Core JavaServer™ Faces

Chapter 1. Getting Started

Topics in This Chapter

• “Why JavaServer Faces?” on page 3

• “A Simple Example” on page 4

• “Development Environments for JSF” on page 13

• “An Analysis of the Sample Application” on page 15

• “A First Glimpse of Ajax” on page 21

• “JSF Framework Services” on page 24

• “Behind the Scenes” on page 26

Why JavaServer Faces?

Nowadays, you can choose among many frameworks for developing the user interface of a web application. JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a component-based framework. For example, if you want to display a table with rows and columns, you do not generate HTML tags for rows and cells in a loop, but you add a table component to a page. (If you are familiar with client-side Java development, you can think of ...