Chapter 7. Using JavaServer Faces Technology in Web Pages

Web pages represent the presentation layer for web applications. The process of creating web pages of a JavaServer Faces application includes adding components to the page and wiring them to backing beans, validators, converters, and other server-side objects that are associated with the page.

This chapter explains how to create web pages using various types of component and core tags. In the next chapter, you will learn about adding converters, validators, and listeners to component tags to provide additional functionality to components.

The following topics are addressed here:

• “Setting Up a Page” on page 113

• “Adding Components to a Page Using HTML Tags” on page 114

• “Using Core ...

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