JavaServer Faces (JSF)
JavaServer Faces 1.2 is a framework for developing Java Web applications.
The JSF framework aims to unify techniques for solving a number of common problems in Web application design and development, such as these:
| User interface development: JSF allows direct binding of user interface (UI) components to model data. It abstracts request processing into an event-driven model. Developers can use extensive libraries of prebuilt UI components that provide both basic and advanced Web functionality. |
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| Navigation: JSF introduces a layer of separation between business logic and the resulting UI pages; stand-alone flexible rules drive the flow of pages. |
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| Session and object management: JSF manages designated model data objects by handling their initialization, persistence over the request cycle, and cleanup. |
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| Validation and error feedback: JSF allows direct binding of reusable validators to UI components. The framework also provides a queue mechanism to simplify error and message feedback to the application user. These messages can be associated with specific UI components. |
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| Internationalization: JSF provides tools for internationalizing Web applications, supporting number, currency, time, and date formatting, and externalizing of UI strings. JSF is easily extended in a variety of ways to suit the requirements of your particular application. You can develop custom components, renderers, validators, and other JSF objects and register them with the JSF runtime. |
More information about JSF framework can be found here:
http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/
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