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Java Server Faces overview

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Java Server Faces overview

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- [Instructor] Java Server Faces is a java based web application framework that simplifies the development of web based applications. JSF provides a more cohesive model than servlets and JSP for building web apps. It's model includes a server side UI component framework, templating support and the ability to bind UI components to java pojos known as backing beans. JFS has a pretty long history, so over time different terminology has come and gone. Let's set a baseline before our overview of the JSF architecture. Within JSF, we find a face's servlet, this servlet is responsible for orchestrating the different events within the JSF life cycle. Another key component is the JSF page, or view, known as a facelet. Facelets contain a server side component tree and are constructed using a mixture of XHTML, tag libraries, expressions, and templates. The components within a facelet represent server side representations of UI…

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