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JavaServer Faces technology is a server-side user interface component framework for Java technology-based web applications.  It includes

  • A set of APIs for: representing UI components and managing their state, handling events and input validation, defining page navigation, and supporting internationalization and accessibility.
  • A JavaServer Pages (JSP) custom tag library for expressing a JavaServer Faces interface within a JSP page.

JavaServer Faces Technology 1.2

The latest version of JavaServer Faces technology is version 1.2, the final version of which has been released through the Java Community Process under JSR-252.   You can download the 1.2 version of the specification from the JSR 252 web page.

The latest implementation of version 1.2 is the patch release, version 1.2_04. You can download all patch releases from here. See the Announcements page for the javaserverfaces.dev.java.net project for more details on each of the releases.

You can get the JavaServer Faces 1.2 reference implementation in one of the following ways:
The reference implementation source code is available from the javaserverfaces-sources project on java.net.

See the release notes for more information on new features and known issues in JavaServer Faces technology 1.2.

See chapters 9 through 13 of the Java EE tutorial for tutorial documentation on JavaServer Faces technology 1.2.

Please send feedback on the version 1.2 specification to jsr-252-comments@jcp.org.  Please send feedback on the version 1.2 reference implementation to dev@javaserverfaces.dev.java.net.

For the latest news on JavaServer Faces technology version 1.2, see the javaserverfaces-spec-public and javaserverfaces projects on java.net.

JavaServer Faces Technology 1.1

You can also download past versions of the specification and reference implementation from this page.  The previous final version of JavaServer Faces technology is version 1.1.  This version has been tested with various configurations with the Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition version 1.3.1_04, 1.4, and 1.4.1 on the following platforms and browsers:

  • Solaris 8
  • Solaris 9
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows XP
  • RedHat Linux 7.2
  • Netscape 6.x
  • Internet Explorer 6

This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).

Please send feedback to jsr-127-comments@jcp.org.

JavaServer Faces v1.1 Specification Final Release

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JavaServer Faces v1.1.01 Reference Implementation

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JavaServer Faces v1.1 Reference Implementation

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Installation instructions for JavaServer Faces technology version 1.1_01 are available in the download bundle and online.

Release Notes for JavaServer Faces technology version 1.1_01 are available in the download bundle.

README for JavaServer Faces technology version 1.1_01 are available in the download bundle and online.

You can also get the JavaServer Faces version 1.1 reference implementation and the Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8 with the first 100% Java standard visual development tool -- Sun Java Studio Creator --all in one easy to install bundle.


JavaServer Faces v1.0 Specification Final Release

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JavaServer Faces v1.0 Reference Implementation

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  Chapters 17 through 21 of The J2EE 1.4 Tutorial provide a tutorial on JavaServer Faces technology, version 1.1.


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