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_4

4. Form Components

Bauke Scholtz¹  and Arjan Tijms²

(1)

Willemstad, Curaçao

(2)

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

 

These are the most important components of the standard JSF (JavaServer Faces) component set. Without them, JSF wouldn’t have been very useful in the first place. When using plain HTML elements instead of JSF components, you’d end up polluting the controller with code to manually apply, convert, and validate submitted values; to update the model with those values; and to figure out the action method to be invoked. That’s exactly the hard work JSF should take off your hands as being a component-based ...