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copied!<p>I would strongly recommend getting someone experienced in JSF to lead your first project in JSF even if this means paying a contractor for 3 months. The JSF approach is very different to JSP. The way you approach and solve problems is very different.</p> <h2> Libraries </h2> <p>Consider the following libraries:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://myfaces.apache.org/tomahawk/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Tomahawk</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.jboss.org/jbossrichfaces/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">RichFaces</a></li> <li><a href="http://shale.apache.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Shale</a></li> <li><a href="http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Trinidad</a></li> <li><a href="http://spring.io/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Spring</a></li> </ul> <h2>Architecture</h2> <p>Embrace <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MVC</a> you need not only to know what this means but use it extensively.</p> <p>There are two main patterns for associating controllers with the views</p> <h3>Dot Net Style, One Request controller per view</h3> <p>Every top level page has a request scoped controller (bean) all validation and actions of the page use this class. Also used for filtering and ordering the Model. The Model will be stored on a few session level controllers which will handle talking to the back-end (EJBs, or persistence layer) these session controllers should be implementing the business logic and have no knowledge of JSF,HTML or any presentation technology.</p> <h3>Controllers are session level</h3> <p>Design controllers based on your data model, nest them with in each other. (This post is getting too long so I wont go into the nuts and bolts of these).</p> <h2>Knowledge Required</h2> <p>Everyone:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/JSFIntro10.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Life Cycle</a></li> <li>MDC</li> <li>Component based development</li> <li>Tags in <a href="http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/1.1_01/docs/tlddocs/overview-summary.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">h: and f:</a> </li> </ul> <p>At Least One Person:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://blogs.steeplesoft.com/jsf-component-writing-check-list/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Creating Custom Components</a></li> <li>Limitations to JSF (back button, random navigation, etc) </li> <li>Debug 3rd party libraries (At least one person has to be comfortable breaking out the debugger and stepping into the implementation of JSF (easiest with open source implementations like MyFaces))</li> </ul>

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