Declaring the Tag Libraries

In order to use JavaServer Faces components in JSP pages, you need to give your pages access to the two standard tag libraries, the HTML component tag library and the core tag library using taglib declarations:

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http:.//java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %>

The first taglib declaration declares the HTML component tag library with a prefix, h. All component tags in the page have this prefix. The core tag library is declared with the prefix f. All core tags in the page have this prefix.

User Interface Component Model includes a table that lists all the component tags included with JavaServer Faces technology. Adding UI Components to a Page Using the HTML Component Tags discusses the tags in more detail.