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What is JSF?
•JavaServer Faces technology
•“New” technology (ratified JCP in 5/2004)
–Part of the new Java Platform spec (Java EE 5)
–Offers reference implementation
•Effort to simplify JSP development
–Component-ize it
•High-level components provide much functionality
–Integrate the controller
•No Struts needed
–Write less HTML
•Component handles markup language
•Can embed JSF in a JSP page
–Reference Implementation only supports JSP
–Outputs HTML to the browser