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What is JSF (Java Server Faces)?

April 26, 2017faces Java JSF server

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What is JSF (Java Server Faces)?

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JavaServer Faces (JSF) is an application framework containing a rich and robust set of APIs and JSP custom tag libraries to simplify creating user interfaces for web based Java applications. Set of APIs represent user interface components and are responsible for managing their state, handling events, validating input. APIs also define page navigation, internationalization and accessibility. JSF includes JSP custom tag library for including JSF interface within a JSP page. So JSF offers a flexible and extensible architecture that makes easy creating reusable, complex server side UI components without limiting developers to a particular mark-up language, protocol, or client device by combining the UI component functionality with custom renderers. Here extensible means additional functionality can be given on the top of JSF core i.e. we can customize the functionality and reusable stands for being able to add and reuse components many times in the page. In the past many web development fr