Shale is a framework for web applications, based on JSF. Shale architecture includes a set of loosely coupled services which can be combined to meet specific application requirements. The additional functionality provided by Shale - application event callbacks, dialogs with conversation-scoped state, a view technology named Clay, annotation-based functionality. These functionalities will reduce the requirement of configuration and provides support for remote computing. Other framework links for integration is provided by Shale, which eases the combined technology based development.