The Example JavaServer Faces Application

The JavaServer Faces technology chapters of this tutorial primarily use a rewritten version of the Duke's Bookstore example to illustrate the basic concepts of JavaServer Faces technology. This version of the Duke's Bookstore example includes several JavaServer Faces technology features:

  • The JavaServer Faces implementation provides FacesServlet, whose instances accept incoming requests and pass them to the implementation for processing. Therefore, the application does not need to include a servlet (such as the Dispatcher servlet) that processes request parameters and dispatches to application logic, as do the other versions of Duke's Bookstore.

  • A custom image map component that allows you to select the ...

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