Core Features
- Managed Beans: A dependency injection system (easily interfaced with Seam, CDI, Spring, or Guice) - also called "Backing Beans" or "Page Beans"
- A template-based component system, for rapid composite component creation - without the need for Java classes.
- Built-in Ajax support using
- Built-in support for bookmarking & page-load actions.
- Integration with the Unified Expression Language (EL), which is core to the function of JSF. Views may access managed bean fields and methods via EL:
- A default set of HTML and web-application specific UI components
- A server-side event model : For dispatching events and attaching listeners to core system functionality, such as "Before Render Response" or "After Validation"
- State management, supporting: "request", "session", "application", "flash", and "view" scoped Java beans.
- Two XML-based tag libraries (core and html) for expressing a JavaServer Faces interface within a view template (can be used with both JSP or Facelets)
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