Having been part of a team developing JSF components in the 1.x days, couldn't agree more.
A few hacks enabling us to use it alongside Facelets, made the whole experience better, but it still left much to be desired. Specially when tracking down bugs related to components misbehaving.
I did revisit the JSF world a couple of months ago and am quite happy that it only lasted a few weeks.
Nowadays I will advise anyone against it. Just use pure JSP with taglibs or any other Java web stack that embraces the HTTP way of working.
A few hacks enabling us to use it alongside Facelets, made the whole experience better, but it still left much to be desired. Specially when tracking down bugs related to components misbehaving.
I did revisit the JSF world a couple of months ago and am quite happy that it only lasted a few weeks.
Nowadays I will advise anyone against it. Just use pure JSP with taglibs or any other Java web stack that embraces the HTTP way of working.