JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a Java-based web application framework intended to simplify development integration of web-based user interfaces.
JSF is a request-driven MVC web framework for constructing user interfaces using components. As a display technology, JSF 2 uses Facelets. Other view technologies such as XUL can also be employed. JSF 1.x uses JavaServer Pages (JSP) for its display technology. JavaServer Faces is a standardized technology which was formalized in a specification through the Java Community Process. It is part of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition.
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