Description: No doubt the name at least is familiar: JavaServer Faces has been talked about a lot, and much anticipated, with good reason. For years there have been an ever-expanding choice of ways to take your web application\'s output and get it on a page (or on some other kind of display). The Servlet API did a lot to enable the first Java web applications - having created web applications for Java before Servlets, I can attest to how much it helped! The first web applications with Servlets cranked out HTML directly - pretty much everyone now agrees this was a bad plan, and hard to maintain to boot. Next came toolkits such as Apache\'s Element Construction Set that generated the HTML for you.
