JSF is not what we often think it is. It’s also a framework that can be somewhat tricky to debug, specially when first encountered. In this post let’s go over on why that is and provide some JSF debugging techniques. We will go through the following topics:
- JSF is not what we often think
- The difficulties of JSF debugging
- How to debug JSF systematically
- How JSF Works – The JSF lifecycle
- Debugging an Ajax request from browser to server and back
- Debugging the JSF frontend Javascript code
- Final thoughts – alternatives? (questions to the reader)