Java Server Faces (JSF)

Java Server Faces (JSF) is a server side user interface component framework for Java technology based web applications.

JSF is a component oriented and event driven framework for web applications.

Create a simple JSF application in Maven

• Create the maven web application via command prompt eg:- SimpleJSF  and open it in Net beans.

       The file layout of the project is some thing like this.

• Insert the following dependencies to your pom.xml file to include the jsf2.0 libraries

       <dependency>
            <groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
            <artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.0.0-b13</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
       </dependency>


      <dependency>
            <groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
            <artifactId>jsf-impl</artifactId>
            <version>2.0.0-b13</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
       </dependency>

• Create a new JSF file (index.xhtml) in the project. (New---> JSF Page)

• In web.xml include the following tags for servlet mapping and set the welcome page.

       <context-param>

           <param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>

           <param-value>Development</param-value>

       </context-param>

  

       <servlet>

          <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>

          <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet
          </servlet-class>

          <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>

       </servlet>

      <servlet-mapping>

           <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>

           <url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>

      </servlet-mapping>

  

     <welcome-file-list>

          <welcome-file>index.xhtml </welcome-file>

      </welcome-file-list>

• After that create a managedbean (New-->JSFMAnagedBean-->studentManagedBean)

      In JSF 2.0, Java bean that can be accessed from JSF page is called   
      Managed Bean.

  

   The managed bean can be a normal Java bean, which contains the getter        

  and setter methods,business logic or even a backing bean.

• After that you create the following classes

    The Structure of the application is like this:

      Here Student.java is the Java bean class.

• If you want to insert the prime faces in your application. You should insert the following dependency and repository

       <dependency>
            <groupId>org.primefaces</groupId>
            <artifactId>primefaces</artifactId>
            <version>3.2</version>
     </dependency>


    <repository>
            <id>prime-repo</id>
            <name>PrimeFaces Maven Repository</name>
            <url>http://repository.primefaces.org</url>
            <layout>default</layout>
    </repository>