Please see the description for a list of normative documents in the JavaServerTM Specification.

The Java Server Faces Specification is composed of several documents:

Specification Document | Available formats
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The API Javadocs (this document) | generated HTML
The Standard HTML RenderKit Specification | generated HTML
The JSP Taglibarydocs | generated HTML
The Facelets Taglibarydocs (including the new "composite" Facelets tag library) | generated HTML
The JSDoc for the JavaScript API (including Ajax functionality) | generated HTML
The prose document | PDF

The following table includes sub-specifications that are not required to be implemented for compliance with JSF 2.1. Implementations are strongly recommend to implement these specifications to maximize the ease of use for the users.

Specification Document | Available formats
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Faces Managed Bean Annotation Specification For Containers Conforming to Servlet 2.5 and Beyond | generated HTML

If the generated portions of the specification were generated with change notification enabled, the following color codes indicate the nature of the change. Non color coded change-bars are included in the non-generated portion of the specification. Please see the preface in the spec prose document for a list of changes.

Added in this version of the spec
Modified in this version of the spec
Deleted or deprecated in this version of the spec