posted 11 years ago
Welcome to the JavaRanch, Eli!
JSF doesn't have any database interface capabilities. You use whatever database functions you want. Usually the actual updating is done from a JSF action method.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.