Introduction to Apache Myfaces and Tomahawk
There are several implementations for JSF
specification. Sun, Apache, Oracle implementations are most popular among JSF
developers. Apache MyFaces is an Apache Software Foundation's
project .This is an open source JSF implementation. Apache MyFaces' core implementation
is based on JSF 1.1 specification. It contains several libraries of
JSF components which can be deployed on the core implementation. MyFaces Tomahawk is a sub-project of Apache that is a set of JSF components.
These components are fully compatible with Sun JSF 1.1 reference implementaion or any
implementation based on JSF 1.1 specification. It contains default components
but some of them with extended functionality.