Chapter 6
Component-Based Web Development Using JSF 2
It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate—you just know someone’s fingers have been all over it.
—Julia Child
JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a component-based framework for developing web applications. The distinctive feature that sets component-based frameworks apart is the ability to create and distribute reusable UI components. In general, a component represents an abstraction, a well-defined contract with the implementation details hidden from the user of the component. That is, the user of the component does not need to know the internal mechanisms of the component in order to be able to use it. Struts and Spring Web MVC alleviate the increasing complexities of building sophisticated ...
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