JSF Features

JSF is a rich featured framework of JAVA technology. JSF provides a set of standard features that makes it a powerful and standard among the existing technologies available for the development of web application based on java technologies. Some of the features have been given below to justify the above statement.

1. JSF is standard web user interface framework for Java.
2. Built on top of Servlet API.
3. JSF is a component  framework
4. UI components are stored on the server.
5. Easy use of third party components.
6. Event driven programming model.
7. Events generated by user are handled on the  server.
8. Navigation handling.
9. Can automatically synchronize UI components .
10. JSF supports multiple client devices.
11. JSF has extensible architecture.
12. International language support.
13. Extensive tool support (Sun, Oracle , IBM etc.).
14. Rapid application development approach.

A short view of jsf  features has been given above. Its main features are component model, event driven, extensible architecture, rapid application development. All of the features will be described in subsequent topics.