JSF is a component-based, server-side Java framework for developing user interfaces. It is the primary web framework in Java EE and includes the MVC model and the template framework.
It aims to simplify the frontend aspect of Java Enterprise applications and accelerate user interface development. It uses a component-based model to build the user interface. It defines a UI component model, which is bound to a well-defined request processing model, a POJO (Plain Old Java Object), in an enterprise application. This allows JSP custom libraries to handle those UI components and provides a mechanism to extend the standard UI components.
JSF saves the state information of the UI components and repopulates them during the display, since the state of the components lives beyond the lifespan of the HTTP request.
JSF operates by providing functionalities such as data...