JSF Form is not showing up [duplicate]

Answer 1

You need to make sure that the request URL (as you enter in browser address bar) matches the url-pattern of the FacesServlet. I.e. do not open the page by http://example.com/context/page.xhtml, but open it by http://example.com/context/page.jsf. Otherwise the FacesServlet will not be invoked and your XHTML page with JSF components will not be parsed in any way. You'll only see "plain HTML" tags like

and so on in the browser and you will see the JSF source code unchanged in the returned HTML source when you do a View Source in browser.