Resources: Marty Hall has a good JSF tutorial here . Rick Hightower has a very good 4 part series on JSF here . Reading the first part of Rick's tutorial. JSF provides component tags for every input field available in standard HTML. [Ref] Well I guess, JSTL also did this. JSF components are stateful. The statefulness of the components is provided through the JSF framework. JSF uses components to produce HTML responses. Were JSP tags also stateful? No. Assuming we are using Struts, let's say we change the state of a form, the state change is transmitted to the backend as an HTTP request. This causes some bean properties to be set. The original form can now be displayed again, using the form bean as a a source for the state of the form. This form will reflect the new change as long as form bean is accessible to the JSP tag. So the state is saved in the form bean, and the fact that the form bean is made accessible to the Tag helps us manage the state of the UI. In JSF, I believe ...
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