JSF Main features

Main features

JSP has the following main features:

• JSP is based on the Model-View-Controller concept
• JSP has a stateful UI component model, e.g. each component is aware of its data
• JSF separates the functionality of a component from the display of the component. The renderer is responsible of displaying the component for a certain client. This renderer can get exchanged. The standard renderer for JSF components is the HTML renderer.
• JSP support listeners on UI components
• JSP support data validation, data binding and data conversion between the UI and the model

1.6. JSP and JSF

In this tutorial the JSF application will be build based on JavaServer Pages (JSP’s). JSTL tags are used to include JSF UI components into the JSP. This is standard in JSF 1.2. The JSF 2.0 version is using Facelets.