Java News from Saturday, March 13, 2004

Sun has released the , Java Server Faces specification and reference implementation (developed in the Java Community Process as Java Specification Request 127). The technology compatibility kit must be licensed specially.

JavaServer™ Faces technology simplifies building user interfaces for JavaServer applications. With the well-defined programming model that JavaServer Faces provides, developers of varying skill levels can quickly and easily build web applications by: assembling reusable UI components in a page, connecting these components to an application data source, and wiring client-generated events to server-side event handlers. With the power of JavaServer Faces technology, these web applications handle all of the complexity of managing the user interface on the server, allowing the application developer to focus on application code.

JavaServer Faces technology includes: