JSF (JavaServer Faces) is a component-based MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework. In essence, JSF parses the view definition into a “component tree.” The root of this tree is represented by the “view root” instance associated with the current instance of the faces context.
UIComponent tree = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getViewRoot();
The view is usually defined using XHTML+XML markup in a Facelets file. XML is a markup language which is very suitable for defining a tree hierarchy using ...
