JSF（JavaServer Faces）承諾爲java服務器端應用提供快速的UI（用戶界面）開發，並且使得開發者能夠專注於服務端應用開發，而無須去過多考慮複雜的瀏覽器顯示和WEB服務。他同時自動地實現了控制流，表單提交等底層的繁瑣的細節。
JSF被設計得支持拖放式的服務端應用開發，你也可以認爲他是jsp和servlet上的一個概念上的層。有經驗的JSP開發人員將發現JSF提供了很多管道(我理解應該是接口)需要開發人員手動來實現.如果你已經用過類似的服務端框架,就如STRUTS,你會發現JSF使用了一種相似的體系結構,但是卻更加靈活,更具擴展性.他同時還提供了服務端的組件和事件模式,這本質上和SWING的概念相似.
JSF正快速地成爲標準的WEB應用框架.Core JavaServer Faces是你想要精通這門強大而省時技術的必讀之書.
原文:(取自core JavaServer™ Faces)JavaServer Faces promises to bring rapid user-interface development to server-side Java. It allows developers to painlessly write server-side applications without worrying about the complexities of dealing with browsers and Web servers. It also automates low-level, boring details like control flow and moving code between web forms and business logic.
JavaServer Faces was designed to support drag and drop development of server-side applications, but you can also think of it as a conceptual layer on top of servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP). Experienced JSP developers will find that JavaServer Faces provides much of the plumbing that they currently have to implement by hand. If you already use a server-side framework such as Struts, you will find that JavaServers Faces uses a similar architecture, but is more flexible and extensible. JavaServer Faces also comes with server-side components and an event model, which are fundamentally similar to the same concepts in Swing.
JavaServer Faces is quickly becoming the standard Web-application framework. Core JavaServer Faces is the one book you need to master this powerful and time-saving technology.