DZone just published the JSF 2.0 version of my JSF refcard. It provides updated summaries of the tags and attributes needed for JSF programming, along with a summary of the JSF expression language and a list of code snippets for common operations.

If you haven't done so, give JSF 2.0 a try. It is a lot more fun than JSF 1.0. Here is a quick recipe.

• Install Glassfish v3. It comes with JSF 2.0
• Run these commands in an empty directory

  svn export https://kenai.com/svn/corejsf~subversion/ch01
  svn export https://kenai.com/svn/corejsf~subversion/build.xml
  svn export https://kenai.com/svn/corejsf~subversion/build.properties
  export GLASSFISH3_HOME=/path/to/glassfish-v3/glassfish/
  ant -Dapp=ch01/login

• Start Glassfish and point your browser to http://localhost:8080/login
• Introduce a typo in index.xhtml and run ant again. You'll get a friendly error message, not the stack trace from hell. Hooray!

Now look at the source. Note these points:

• A blessedly empty faces-config.xml
• @ManagedBean @Stateless annotations in the bean class
• Facelets syntax in the web pages

If you are stuck with JSF 1.x, the old refcard is still available.