Application Configuration Resource File

JavaServer Faces technology provides a portable configuration format (as an XML document) for configuring resources. An application architect creates one or more files, called application configuration resource files, that use this format to register and configure objects and to define navigation rules. An application configuration resource file is usually called faces-config.xml.

The application configuration resource file must be valid against the DTD located at http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-facesconfig_1_0.dtd. In addition, each file must include the following, in this order:

  • The XML version number:

    <?xml version="1.0"?>

  • This DOCTYPE declaration:

     <!DOCTYPE faces-config PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD ...

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