How do I convert this h:form into xhtml form

Question

<h:form id="login">
    Email: <h:inputText id="email" value="#{user.email}"/>
    <h:commandLink id="signupLink"  value="signup" action="#{userManager.validate}"/>
</h:form>

To something like this:

<form action="#{userManager.validate}">
    Email: <input type="text" id="email" value="#{user.email}"/>
    <button type="submit" value="signup"/>
</form>

Answer 1

Let the action point to the servlet URL. Then write code in servlet's doGet() or doPost() to collect the request parameters and store in model objects and execute the business code. In the view, you can redisplay the request parameters using ${param.name} in EL. Basically the same what JSF does under the hoods thus. This is a good tutorial to learn JSP/Servlet.