JavaServer Faces Technology

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JavaServer^TM Faces technology simplifies building user interfaces for JavaServer applications. With the well-defined programming model that JavaServer Faces provides, developers of varying skill levels can quickly and easily build web applications by: assembling reusable UI components in a page, connecting these components to an application data source, and wiring client-generated events to server-side event handlers. With the power of JavaServer Faces technology, these web applications handle all of the complexity of managing the user interface on the server, allowing the application developer to focus on application code.

JavaServer Faces technology includes:

• A set of APIs for: representing UI components and managing their state, handling events and input validation, defining page navigation, and supporting internationalization and accessibility.
• A JavaServer Pages (JSP) custom tag library for expressing a JavaServer Faces interface within a JSP page.

This release of JavaServer Faces has been tested with various configurations with the Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition version 1.3.1_04, 1.4, and 1.4.1 on the following platforms and browsers:

• Solaris 2.8
• Solaris 2.9
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• RedHat Linux 7.2
• Netscape 6.x
• Internet Explorer 6

This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).