This chapter describes the history of JSF, starting from its early conception and ending where we are today at the moment of writing. We’ll discuss how the JSF API (application programming interface) itself evolved, which important events took place during that evolution, and who some of the people were that were involved in all of this.
This is in no way a complete description of the history and the reader should take notice of the fact that many more events took place and many more people were ...