I spent the day pulling together a new development environment to finally start messing around with Java. For almost 10 years I've gotten away with not having to worry too much about Java but alas, the time has come.

So anyway, I'm the proud owner of a 2010 Eclipse (Helios) install, happily working with JSF 2.0, courtesy of the Mojarra-1.2-15-b01 project.

On the web container/server side is Jetty6, tried version 7 with no luck, yet.

All in all I'm a little disappointed. A simple piece of code that worked perfectly as PHP on a WAMP stack finally rendered in my browser as a .xhtml document.

While JSF seems to have potential I don't like the idea of being forced to write XHTML with HTML5 on the way.

PS - Like I said, I'm a total Java noob.