JSF is a UI component framework for J2EE applications. You can invest a lot of time into the application to make it rich and interactive using various technologies but how do you maintain such an application? How do you reuse what you have built?
JSF is all about components!
Component Model
JSF simplifys life for application developers, making [...]
JSP and the beginnings of the Expression Language (EL)
The expression language (EL) was introduced as part of the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) version 1.0 as a simple way to access external data objects ie. JavaBeans. ${employee.name} this expression calls the getName method of the employee JavaBean. The expression language greatly reduced scripting in [...]
Facelets
Facelets is a templating language developed, with JavaServer Faces (JSF) in mind, to address alot of the issues that have arisen when trying to use JSF with JavaServer Pages (JSP). These issues exist because JSP and JSF dont complement each other very well
Facelets provides – templating, code resue, easier development – it promotes a reduction [...]