Java How to Program (early objects), 9/e

29.4 Your First JSF Web App

Let’s begin with a simple example. Figure 29.4 shows the output of our WebTime app. When you invoke this app from a web browser, the browser requests the app’s default JSF page. The web server receives this request and passes it to the JSF web-application framework for processing. This framework is available in any Java EE 6-compliant application server (such as the GlassFish application server used in this chapter) or any JavaServer Faces 2.0-compliant container (such as Apache Tomcat). The framework includes the Faces servlet—a software component running on the server that processes each requested JSF page so that the server can eventually return a response to the client. In this example, the Faces servlet processes ...