Building Database-driven Applications with JSF

(Andrei Cioroianu) JavaServer Faces (JSF) is the long-awaited standard Java technology for creating Web-based user interfaces. In this article, I will explain how to build JSF forms, validate the form data with JSF, implement JSF actions that access the database, and present the SQL result sets with JSF. A relational database can be updated and queried using a low-level API (JDBC), an object-relational (O-R) mapping framework such as Oracle TopLink, or a JSP tag library (e.g. JSTL). These options are discussed throughout this article along with the main JSF features.