Core JavaServer™ Faces

Chapter 4. Standard JSF Tags

Topics in This Chapter

• “An Overview of the JSF Core Tags” on page 102

• “An Overview of the JSF HTML Tags” on page 105

• “Panels” on page 115

• “The Head, Body, and Form Tags” on page 118

• “Text Fields and Text Areas” on page 123

• “Buttons and Links” on page 134

• “Selection Tags” on page 145

• “Messages” on page 171

Development of compelling JSF applications requires a good grasp of the JSF tag libraries. JSF 1.2 had two tag libraries: core and HTML. As of JSF 2.0, there are six libraries with over 100 tags—see Table 4-1. In this chapter, we cover the core library and most of the HTML library. One HTML library component—the data table—is so complex that it is covered separately in Chapter 6.

Table 4-1 JSF ...