The Definitive Guide to Jakarta Faces in Jakarta EE 10: Building Java-Based Enterprise Web Applications

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B. Scholtz, A. TijmsThe Definitive Guide to Jakarta Faces in Jakarta EE 10https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7310-4_15

15. Extensions

Bauke Scholtz¹   and Arjan Tijms²

(1)

Willemstad, Curaçao

(2)

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

 

If there is one single element or virtue of Jakarta Faces to which we can attribute its lasting for so long, it’s probably its ability to be extended in a large variety of ways. From the onset, Jakarta Faces made it possible to have most of its core elements replaced, decorated, or augmented.

This gave rise to a large number of extension libraries and projects. In the very early days, these were A4J (Ajax4JSF), Tomahawk, RichFaces, ...