对我来说，JSF 2.0最大的缺点不仅是JSF的学习曲线，而且是为了让它做有用的工作而必须使用的组件库。想想你要真正精通需要处理的数量惊人的规范和标准:

HTML in the various incarnations. Don't pretend you don't need to know it. HTTP -- when you can't figure out what is going on you have to open Firebug and see. For that you need to know this. CSS -- Like it or not. It isn't so bad really and there are some nice tools out there at least. XML -- JSF will probably the first place you use namespaces to this degree. Servlet Specification. Sooner or later you will get into calling methods in this package. Aside from that you have to know how your Facelets gets turned into XHTML or whatever. JSP (mostly so you know why you don't need it in JSF) JSTL (again, mostly to cope with legacy framework) Expression Language (EL) in its various forms. ECMAScript, JavaScript, or whatever else you want to call it. JSON -- you should know this even if you don't use it. AJAX. I would say JSF 2.0 does a decent job of hiding this from you but you still need to know what is going on. The DOM. And how a browser uses it. See ECMAScript. DOM Events -- a topic all by itself. Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) that is if you want your app to have any back end data base. Java itself. JSEE while you are at it. The Context Dependency Injection specification (CDI) and how it clashes with and is used with JSF 2.0 JQuery -- I would like to see you get along without it.

现在，一旦你完成了这些，你就可以继续使用专有规范，即你将在此过程中获得的组件库和提供者库:

PrimeFaces(我选择的组件库) RichFaces MyFaces ICEFaces EclipseLink(我的JPA提供者) Hibernate 焊接

别忘了容器!所有这些配置文件:

GlassFish(2,3等) JBoss Tomcat

那么——这让事情变得简单了吗?当然，JSF 2.0很“简单”，只要你想做的只是最基本的web页面和最简单的交互。

简单地说，JSF 2.0是当今软件界所存在的最复杂和最麻烦的技术大杂烩。我想不出还有什么更好的方法。

“JSF将输出视图层HTML和JavaScript，如果不进入控制器代码，您就无法控制或更改它们。”

实际上，JSF为您提供了灵活性，您既可以使用标准/第三方组件，也可以创建自己的组件，您可以完全控制呈现的内容。使用JSF 2.0创建自定义组件只需要一个xhtml。

对我来说，JSF 2.0最大的缺点不仅是JSF的学习曲线，而且是为了让它做有用的工作而必须使用的组件库。想想你要真正精通需要处理的数量惊人的规范和标准:

HTML in the various incarnations. Don't pretend you don't need to know it. HTTP -- when you can't figure out what is going on you have to open Firebug and see. For that you need to know this. CSS -- Like it or not. It isn't so bad really and there are some nice tools out there at least. XML -- JSF will probably the first place you use namespaces to this degree. Servlet Specification. Sooner or later you will get into calling methods in this package. Aside from that you have to know how your Facelets gets turned into XHTML or whatever. JSP (mostly so you know why you don't need it in JSF) JSTL (again, mostly to cope with legacy framework) Expression Language (EL) in its various forms. ECMAScript, JavaScript, or whatever else you want to call it. JSON -- you should know this even if you don't use it. AJAX. I would say JSF 2.0 does a decent job of hiding this from you but you still need to know what is going on. The DOM. And how a browser uses it. See ECMAScript. DOM Events -- a topic all by itself. Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) that is if you want your app to have any back end data base. Java itself. JSEE while you are at it. The Context Dependency Injection specification (CDI) and how it clashes with and is used with JSF 2.0 JQuery -- I would like to see you get along without it.

现在，一旦你完成了这些，你就可以继续使用专有规范，即你将在此过程中获得的组件库和提供者库:

PrimeFaces(我选择的组件库) RichFaces MyFaces ICEFaces EclipseLink(我的JPA提供者) Hibernate 焊接

别忘了容器!所有这些配置文件:

GlassFish(2,3等) JBoss Tomcat

那么——这让事情变得简单了吗?当然，JSF 2.0很“简单”，只要你想做的只是最基本的web页面和最简单的交互。

简单地说，JSF 2.0是当今软件界所存在的最复杂和最麻烦的技术大杂烩。我想不出还有什么更好的方法。

Inexperienced developers usually will create applications that are painfully slow and code will be really ugly and hard to maintain. Its deceptively simple to start, but actually requires some investment in learning if you want to write good programs. At least at the start you will often "stuck" on some problem and will spend more time reading balusc posts on internet than actually working :) After a while it will be less and less of that, but it still can be annoying. Even more annoying when you find out that the problem is not due to you lack of knowledge/mistake but actually a bug. Mojarra was(is?) quite buggy, and another layer of components adds even more problems. Richfaces was biggest piece of crap software ever written :) Don't know how it is now on version 4. We have Primefaces which is better, but still you will run into bugs or lack of features especially with more exotic components. And now you will need to pay for Primefaces updates. So I would say its buggy but its getting better especially after 2.2 version fixed some problems with spec. Framework getting more mature but still far from perfect (maybe myfaces better?). I don't find it especially flexible. Often if you need something very very customized and there are no components that does that - it will be a bit painful. Again I'm talking from average developer perspective - the one with deadlines, quick reading tutorials, and searching stackoverflow when getting stuck because no time to learn how it really works :) Often some components seems to have "almost" what you need, but not exactly and sometimes you might spend too much time to make it do something you want :) Need to be careful in evaluating if its better to create your own or torture existing component. Actually if you are creating something really unique I would not recommend JSF.

简而言之，我的缺点是:复杂，开发过程不流畅，漏洞百出，缺乏灵活性。

当然也有好处，但这不是你问的。不管怎样，这是我使用框架的经验，其他人可能有不同的意见，所以最好的方法是尝试一段时间，看看它是否适合你(只是一些更复杂的东西-不是天真的例子- JSF真的很出色:)依我看，JSF的最佳用例是业务应用程序，如crm等…

在所有的“主流”框架中，如Spring MVC、Wicket、Tapestry等，Java EE的JSF及其复合组件是所提供的最精细的表示层和面向组件的技术。与HybridJava提供的解决方案相比，它有点麻烦和不完整。

在使用JSF工作了5年之后，我认为我可以添加我的2分。

Two major JSF drawbacks: Big learning curve. JSF is complex, that's just true. Its component nature. Component-based framework tries to hide the true nature of the Web, which comes with a huge amount of complications and disasters (like not supporting GET in JSF within almost 5 years). IMHO hiding HTTP Request/Response from the developer is an enormous mistake. From my experience, every component-based framework adds abstraction to the Web development, and that abstraction results in unnecessary overhead and higher complexity.

And minor drawbacks that come to my mind: By default ID of the object is composed of its parents' ids, for example form1:button1. No easy way to comment-out incorrect page's fragment. Tag <ui:remove> needs syntactically correct content which is parsed anyway. Low quality 3rd party components which e.g. don't check isRendered() inside processXxx() method before continuing. Incorporating LESS & Sencha is hard. Doesn't play well with REST. Not so easy for UX designers, because ready-to-use components have their own CSS styles, that need to be overwritten.

不要误会我的意思。作为一个组件框架，JSF在版本2中确实很好，但它仍然是基于组件的，而且永远是……

请看看Tapestry、Wicket的低人气以及有经验的JSF开发人员的低热情(这是更有意义的)。 作为对比，看看Rails、Grails、Django、Play!框架——它们都是基于动作的，不会试图向程序员隐藏真实的请求/响应和web的无状态特性。

对我来说，这是JSF的主要缺点。恕我直言，JSF可以适合某些类型的应用程序(内部网、表单密集型)，但对于现实生活中的web应用程序来说，它不是一个好方法。

希望它能帮助一些人做出关于前端的选择。