JSF Overview

What is JSF?

JSF is new standard framework , developed through Java Community Process (JCP) , that makes it easy to build user interfaces for java web applications by assembling reusable components in a page.

JSF includes mainly:

1. Set of APIs to represent and manage state of components that helps server side validation, event handling, page navigation, data conversion etc.
2. JSP custom tag library to create UI components in a view page.

Goal of JSF is to create web applications faster and easier.

Conclusion:
JSF is a framework, that makes its easy to build user interfaces for java web applications by assembling reusable components in a page.