JavaServer Faces Application

What Is a JavaServer Faces Application?

For the most part, a JavaServer Faces application is like any other Java web application. A typical JavaServer Faces application includes the following pieces:

• A set of JSP pages (although you are not limited to using JSP pages as your presentation technology)

• A set of backing beans, which are JavaBeans components that define properties and functions for UI components on a page

• An application configuration resource file, which defines page navigation rules and configures beans and other custom objects, such as custom components

• A deployment descriptor (a web.xml file)

• Possibly a set of custom objects created by the application developer. These objects might include custom components, validators, converters, or listeners.

• A set of custom tags for representing custom objects on the page

A JavaServer Faces application that includes JSP pages also uses the standard tag libraries defined by JavaServer Faces technology for representing UI components and other objects on the page.

JSF是什么？

大体上，JSF跟其他JavaWeb很像。一个典型的JSF包括下面几部分：

• JSP页面（或其他页面技术)
• 托管Bean，定义页面UI组件的属性和方法
• 配置文件，定义页面导航规则和配置bean和其他
• web.xml
• 自定义objects，含有自定义组件，验证器，转换器和监听器
• 自定义标签

JSF定义的标准标签库