JavaServer Faces

Name

FacesServlet

Synopsis

This class is a servlet that acts as the entry point to a JSF view. It creates all infrastructure instances and then asks them to process the request as a JSF request.

Synopsis

Class name:	javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet
Extends:	None
Implements:	javax.servlet.Servlet

Fields

public static final String CONFIG_FILES_ATTR

The name of the application context initialization parameter holding a list of JSF configuration files: javax.faces.CONFIG_FILES.

public static final String LIFECYCLE_ID_ATTR

The name of the application context initialization parameter holding the class name of the Lifecycle implementation to use: javax.faces.LIFECYCLE_ID.

Constructors

public FacesServlet()

Creates an instance.

Methods

public void destroy()

Releases all acquired resources.

public javax.servlet.ServletConfig getServletConfig()

Returns the ServletConfig instance.

public String getServletInfo()

Returns information about this servlet.

public void init(javax.servlet.ServletConfig config)

Acquire all JSF infrastructure instances needed to process JSF requests.

public void service(javax.servlet.ServletRequest request, javax.servlet.ServletResponse response) throws java.io.IOException, javax.servlet.ServletException

Create a Lifecycle instance and ask it to process the request.