The J2EE™ Tutorial Second Edition

Setting Up a Page

To use the JavaServer Faces UI components in your JSP page, you need to give the page access to the two tag libraries: the JavaServer Faces standard HTML render kit tag library and the JavaServer Faces core tag library. The JavaServer Faces standard HTML render kit tag library defines tags that represent common HTML user interface components. The JavaServer Faces core tag library defines tags that perform core actions and are independent of a particular render kit.

Using these tag libraries is similar to using any other custom tag library. This chapter assumes that you are familiar with the basics of using custom tags in JSP pages (see Using Custom Tags, page 502).

As is the case with any tag library, each JavaServer Faces tag ...