How to create a simple Java EE Web Application using JSF Framework

   This beginner's  tutorial is meant for Java programmers who want to dive into JavaEE web application programming using the JSF Framework. JavaEE is Oracle's Enterprise computing platform .  With JavaEE you are able to develop network and web services, and other large-scale, multi-tiered, scalable, reliable, and secure network applications.

  JSF stands for Java Server Faces and it is a user interface (UI) framework for Java web applications. It is designed to significantly ease the burden of writing and maintaining applications that run on a Java application server and render their UIs back to a target client. 

    In this tutorial, i will show you how to create a simple JavaEE user registration web application that persists(inserts) user details into a database. For starters, I'll use MySQL DBMS and NetBeans IDE.

WHAT YOU NEED

• Download and install Java Development Kit (JDK) from here 
•  Download and install the latest version of  NetBeans  
• MySQL DBMS .
• Some Java Programming Experience

 Once you've installed the above, you'll realize that NetBeans comes with the latest Glass-fish application server bundled . All of your web applications will be deployed on this server. Luckily, NetBeans does this for you , but as you become more experienced with JavaEE, you will need to know how to configure various application servers like Apache Tomcat, JBOSS e.t.c

Next you'll learn how to create a JavaEE web project