We have already seen examples of JSF tags from the HTML (h:) and Core (f:) libraries.

JSF 2.0 adds four more libraries:

The core library contains the tags that are independent of HTML rendering.

So far we have seen:

• f:param — To fill in messages with variable parts
• f:metadata and f:viewParam — To allow pages to make GET requests

Most of the core tags represent objects you add to components, such as the following:

• Attributes
• Parameters
• Facets
• Listeners
• Converters
• Validators
• Selection Items

Here we give the full list.

This section lists the available JSF HTML tags.

Many are covered specifically in the sections and examples to follow.