UIComponents are central to the functioning and usability of JSF. What you see on the user agent ( for e.g, web browsers) is the markup generated by UIComponent classes and whatever is submitted through browsers in web request is decoded by the UIComponent instances for that particular page. However for any component having slight complexity, how the markup looks like and behaves is dependent on other resources like images, javascript and stylesheet etc. So if a component author provides a component, the framework should have a mechanism of including these resources (preferably within the jar bundling the component) so that components can look and behave as desired. This way components can be self contained.
Prior to JSF 2 such a mechanism was missing. JSF 2 provides this important missing piece to enable a component to load resources uniformly from class path resources.
Typically in a web application, how static resource requests are served depends on the mapping in web.xml. Most commonly the web.xml does not contain any specific mappings for extensions of static resources like images, scripts ( for e.g., *.jpg,*.css etc). In that case a Servlet provided by container usually serves up the request. For e.g., in Tomcat such requests are served up by
How JSF recognizes that a request is for a resource depends upon the existence of string "/javax.faces.resource" in the request url. If this string is present then the JSF main Servlet "FacesServlet" considers this as a resource request and forwards it to default ResourceHandler.
Prior to JSF 2 such a mechanism was missing. JSF 2 provides this important missing piece to enable a component to load resources uniformly from class path resources.
Typically in a web application, how static resource requests are served depends on the mapping in web.xml. Most commonly the web.xml does not contain any specific mappings for extensions of static resources like images, scripts ( for e.g., *.jpg,*.css etc). In that case a Servlet provided by container usually serves up the request. For e.g., in Tomcat such requests are served up by
How JSF recognizes that a request is for a resource depends upon the existence of string "/javax.faces.resource" in the request url. If this string is present then the JSF main Servlet "FacesServlet" considers this as a resource request and forwards it to default ResourceHandler.
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