Example Application
Various books and articles have tried to lead people who are new to JSF into the web (pun intended) of JSF pieces in various ways. Some have started with theory (for example describing MVC as it related to JSF - Mastering Java Server Faces by Dudney et.at.), some with definitions (e.g. Kito Mann in his new book JSF in Action) and some with generalizations that never did get to the point (e.g. the J2EE Tutorial - Sun Web site). After careful consideration I think I got the most out of seeing some simple code (Core JavaServer Faces - Geary and Hostmann). As a result, we are going to follow there model (kinda - sortta).