In this appendix, we will provide a quick reference to the JavaServer Faces Flow. A flow is as per user and per web application finite state machine is with nodes. There is a default entry node and at least one exit node.
In Chapter 6, JSF Flows and Finesse, we discussed the building of the flow navigation from the Faces configuration XML file. The JSF 2.2 specification describes the convention to store and set up the flows with a directory structure.
There are several types of nodes. They are tabulated in the following table: