Core JavaServer Faces

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Summary: Best Book on Faces
Review: This is the best book on JSF on the market today: (1) Authors are experts. (2) Tells you how to use the technology, not just how it was designed. (3) Doesn't require prior experience with JSP, servlets. (4) No pages wasted on reference material that is available online. Highly recommended!

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Summary: Excellent for beginners and experts
Review: This is the official book by Sun Microsystems Press. I found it easy to read and very informative. The first part requires little Java programming, having a gentle introduction into beans, navigation, standard components and validators. This should get anyone up to speed right away. The later chapters have more meat for experts, custom validators and components, databases and web services (not strictly JSF but still great to see how the pieces fit together) and finally a "how do I" chapter that's filled with nuggets. Much better than the Orielly book.

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Summary: Way to get started
Review: With JSP & Servlet in popular decline Sun comes out with a technology that has the potential to challenge ASP.NET.

By far this is the best book as an introduction to the new technology. Really appreciated the intro on how to make JSF work with Tomcat.

It will take 3-4 days to become confident with the technology.