29.2 HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Transactions
To learn how JSF web apps work, it’s important to understand the basics of what occurs behind the scenes when a user requests a web page in a web browser. If you’re already familiar with this and with multitier application architecture, you can skip to Section 29.4.
XHTML Documents
In its simplest form, a web page is nothing more than an XHTML document (also called an XHTML page) that describes content to display in a web browser. HTML documents normally contain hyperlinks that link to different pages or to other parts of the same page. When the user clicks a hyperlink, the requested web page loads into the user’s web browser. Similarly, the user can type the address of a page into the ...
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