Java Server Faces JSF 1.2 - Java Tips
Implementing a simple web application with JSF 1.2 framework to illustrate the mechanism of the framework and its basic components.
One of the key advantages of JSF is that it is both a Java Web user-interface standard as well as a framework that firmly follows the Model-View-Controller(MVC) design pattern. This makes JSF applications much more manageable because the user-interface code ( View) is cleanly separated from the application data and logic ( Model). To prepare the JSF context, which provides application data access to the pages, and to guard against unauthorized or improper access of the pages, all user interactions with the application are handled by a front-end "Faces" servlet ( Controller).