The web community is eagerly seeking a framework like Tapestry, backed by JavaServer Faces as the industry standard. While JavaServer Faces and JSP are meant to be aligned,Facelets steps outside of the JSP spec and provides a highly performant, JSF-centric view technology. Anyone who has created a JSP page will be able to do the same with Facelets. The difference is under the hood where all the burden of the JSP Vendor API is removed to more greatly enhance JSF performance and provide easy plug-and-go development. Even though Facelets is being developed open source under Sun's guidance, it can work with any JSF 1.2 compliant implementation or MyFaces.

Quick Info

Download Now

The releases are downloadable from here.

Need Help?

The Facelets User Mailing List is probably the best way to get your questions answered. There are a lot of great developers that are willing to respond to you pretty quickly.

Documentation

You may view the developer documentation, or jump over to the Facelets Wiki.

MyFaces/Tomahawk Components

Mike Kienenberger has headed up the Tomahawk TagLib for Facelets.

BeanShell Scripting Support

Tal Liron added scriptlet support for facelets, currently supporting BeanShell. The taglibs and documentation are available here.

Oracle ADF Support

Adam Winer contributed support for Oracle's rich ADF components that include AJAX-like functionality.

Get Involved!

Mailing Lists

The User's List is the best place to communicate with other Facelets developers, it's quite active..

Submit Patches

The issue tracker has lots of enhancement requests, you can submit a request or even better, a patch!

Share Your Work

The Facelets Wiki includes a place to post sites that use Facelets and post a little bit about the users themselves.

Vendor Support

Facelets is very interested in working with other vendors/products. Feel free to contact the Dev-Mailing list.

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