ADF Faces brings Oracle's GUI components to JSF

The still-new JavaServer Faces is Java's counterpart to .NET Web Forms. JSF aims to provide reusable components for building the view layer. Before JSF, you had to create your own proprietary component libraries to use in your applications.

As the technology was still young, there were few implementations. ADF Faces, introduced by Oracle, looks genuinely interesting. The tag library overview includes screenshots of components such as calendars, tabs and buttons. It's enough to make you forget the ugly reference implementation from Sun.

Related links

• News, implementations, articles and other JSF resources at JSFCentral
• Jiří Žaloudek The JavaServer Faces technology (part of a year-long school project, and very good)
• (Dagblog, 18 August 2004) JavaServer Faces arrives