Configuring a Faces application

Here is what the web version of the Financial Calculator app looks like:

Figure 15.1 – The Financial Calculator web page

Configuring a Faces project begins with the same setup as any basic web application, such as what we saw in the previous chapter. The Maven folder setup is identical. In the WEB-INF folder, we have three required XML configuration files and one that is optional. Let us begin with beans.xml:

<beans xmlns="https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee"
    xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance
    xsi:schemaLocation="https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee
    https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee/beans_3_0.xsd"
       bean-discovery-mode="annotated">
</beans>

This looks strange because there is only one tag, beans. Before the widespread usage of annotations...