This is the JavaServer Faces 1.2 (JSF 1.2) specification, developed by the JSR-252 expert group under the Java Community Process (see <http://www.jcp.org> for more information about the JCP).
JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a user interface (UI) framework for Java web applications. It is designed to significantly ease the burden of writing and maintaining applications that run on a Java application server and render their UIs back to a target client. JSF provides ease-ofuse in the following ways:
Makes it easy to construct a UI from a set of reusable UI components
Simplifies migration of application data to and from the UI
Helps manage UI state across server requests
Provides a simple model for wiring client-generated events to server-side application code
Allows custom UI components to be easily built and re-used
Most importantly, JSF establishes standards which are designed to be leveraged by tools to provide a developer experience which is accessible to a wide variety of developer types, ranging from corporate developers to systems programmers. A “corporate developer” is characterized as an individual who is proficient in writing procedural code and business logic, but is not necessarily skilled in object-oriented programming. A “systems programmer” understands object-oriented fundamentals, including abstraction and designing for re-use. A corporate developer typically relies on tools for development, while a system programmer may define his or her tool as a text editor for writing code.
Therefore, JSF is designed to be tooled, but also exposes the framework and programming model as APIs so that it can be used outside of tools, as is sometimes required by systems programmers.
Download JavaServer Faces Specification (pdf) 406 pages
JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a user interface (UI) framework for Java web applications. It is designed to significantly ease the burden of writing and maintaining applications that run on a Java application server and render their UIs back to a target client. JSF provides ease-ofuse in the following ways:
Makes it easy to construct a UI from a set of reusable UI components
Simplifies migration of application data to and from the UI
Helps manage UI state across server requests
Provides a simple model for wiring client-generated events to server-side application code
Allows custom UI components to be easily built and re-used
Most importantly, JSF establishes standards which are designed to be leveraged by tools to provide a developer experience which is accessible to a wide variety of developer types, ranging from corporate developers to systems programmers. A “corporate developer” is characterized as an individual who is proficient in writing procedural code and business logic, but is not necessarily skilled in object-oriented programming. A “systems programmer” understands object-oriented fundamentals, including abstraction and designing for re-use. A corporate developer typically relies on tools for development, while a system programmer may define his or her tool as a text editor for writing code.
Therefore, JSF is designed to be tooled, but also exposes the framework and programming model as APIs so that it can be used outside of tools, as is sometimes required by systems programmers.
Download JavaServer Faces Specification (pdf) 406 pages
