When we click on the “homepage” link of the JSF entry in Maven Repository we are forwarded (from http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/ - I thought that company died long ago, but Oracle doesn’t bother fixing links) to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index.html which currently showcases a picutre of a young man in front of the computer and we are told he is probabaly working with JSF & PrimeFaces (PrimeFaces is “a popular JavaServer Faces (JSF) UI framework” that is also used in my project, I hope I’ll get to cover that too). Now, to me, he doesn’t look like he is happily working on something interesting but rather trying hard to finally get-that-bloody-thing to work (already in the exhaustion/resigning phase – “damn, why doesn’t it work!? :(“). This is comes close to how I feel about the series of tools I am writing about here (1). So let’s get started tinkering about this web framework. The website ( Get Started subpage) uses a two nice gray color sh