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Developing Web applications using JSF

JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a framework that simplifies building user interfaces for Web applications.

In this chapter, we introduce the features, benefits, and architecture of JSF.
Our focus is to demonstrate the Rational Application Developer support and tooling for JSF. The chapter includes an example Web application using JSF, with persistence implemented in JPA.

JPA is the Java Persistence API, described in Chapter | 2, Persistence using the Java Persistence API (JPA).

The chapter is organized into the following sections:

Introduction to JSF

Developing a Web application using JSF and JPA

The sample code for this chapter is in 7672code\jsf.

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