Rajneesh's Logbook

Dr. Xinyu Lu has published an article on java.net giving an overview of the differences between developing webapps using JSP and JSTL tags, and JSF . This article introduces a rich list of useful tips to help developers smoothly transition from the old-fashioned JSP/servlet programming to the new JSF-style programming. It clarifies the issues and confusion developers may encounter, and promotes best practices and methodologies to simplify web development, improve code reuse, and make source code more designer-friendly, as well as easy-to-maintain. JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a server-side user interface component framework for Java-based web applications. As a standard web development technology, JSF 1.2 is encapsulated as part of the latest Java EE 5 specification. JSF promotes a component-based, event-driven UI development methodology, independent from any mark-up language, protocol, or client device. Inspired by MVC frameworks like Struts, the JSF API has built-in support for internat...