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JSF is becoming more popular framework for user interface layer development, many architects and companies assuming that Struts is becoming outdated and JSF is catching up the market. I am not sure whether it is true at this point of time. However I would like express my critic on the advantages and disadvantages of JSF. Advantages Big vendors (Oracle, IBM, JBoss, etc) backing JSF implementation..

Open Source Components Use myfaces or Sun RI. I feel it doesn’t matter because both comes from Sun. Sun offers myfaces through open-source community. Use richfaces to get rich look quicker. Click here to go to demo site. Use facelets to avoid compilation time and better code readability. IDE Use eclipse latest version Use richfaces eclipse plugin. It offers Visual Page Editor for Richfaces, JSF,..

Introduction to JSF JavaServer Faces is a framework that simplifies development of sophisticated web application user interfaces, primarily by defining a user interface component model tied a well defined request processing life cycle. Objectives of JSF To provide event-driven component based technology for developoing web applications. To separate the user interface from the model objects that ..