The Definitive Guide to JSF in Java EE 8: Building Web Applications with JavaServer Faces

© Bauke Scholtz, Arjan Tijms 2018

Bauke Scholtz and Arjan TijmsThe Definitive Guide to JSF in Java EE 8https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3387-0_3

3. Components

Bauke Scholtz¹  and Arjan Tijms²

(1)

Willemstad, Curaçao

(2)

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

 

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 ...