Why JSF is your Best Bet for Web 2.0 Applications

JSF is a powerful JEE framework that is bundled with JEE 5. It adds the missing layer to Enterprise applications: a sophisticated View technology which makes creating highly interactive web applications simple. For Model 1 and Struts developers JSF represents an opportunity to leverage their existing code and quickly build applications that make the most of AJAX and reusable JSF components. In spite of this, there is a perception among non-JSF developers that JSF is obscure, difficult and non-performant. Join JSF Expert Group member Jim Cook on an exploration of a sophisticated JSF application which uses spreadsheets and graphs – in a browser – to highlight JSFs abilities, with an eye toward JSF coding patterns, best practices, and JSF’s overall ease of development for the enterprise programmer.