Nicholas Hagen

One of the areas of JSF that I think suffers compared to other models such as JSP, PHP, etc is that it requires two paths instead of one. In JSP, for example, code is compiled directly into Java bytecode. That code is then directly executed when the servlet is accessed. As a result, a single [...]

Currently in JSF, if you wish to have one component refer to another component, you have to use one of two types of client ids: absolute or relative. A relative id is resolved against its closest parent NamingContainer and searches for a suitable match. An absolute id starts with a separator character (typically a colon) [...]