JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a model-view-presenter framework typically used to create HTML form based web applications. 2.3 is the version name.
JavaServer Faces 2.3 is the major JSF upgrade that's part of Java EE 8. It has some significant new features like tighter integration with CDI, support for WebSockets, a component search expression framework and a multi-field validation.
For the real wiki, please jump over to the jsf wiki: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/jsf/info.