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JavaServer Faces is a new framework for building Web applications using Java. JavaServer Faces provides you with the following main features:

* Page navigation specification
* Standard user interface components like input fields, buttons, and links
* User input validation
* Easy error handling
* Java bean management
* Event handling
* Internationalization support

JSF provides the common plumbing for any Web application allowing you to concentrate on your specific application (instead of worrying about things like how to create a link from one page to another). This will become clearer as we go along.
What Will You Need?

You will need the following to complete this tutorial:

* JDK 1.4
* Tomcat 5.0 or any other servlet container (JBoss, Resin, JRun). We will use Tomcat in this example.
* Ant

We will provide you with many of the project files so that you don't need to create them yourself. We will be concentrating primarily on the actual JSF application, not on creating Ant scripts or web.xml files. These files will be provided for you. You will just need to copy and paste content from this tutorial.