Detailed JSF Life cycle

There are plethora of articles on net which explain the JSF Life cycle. If you know the JSF life cycle superficially then I would suggest you to look at this article. Personally I prefer to understand about a framework by going through documentation and source code. Especially in case of JSF I found it very useful as the lifecycle is bit complex and it gives you a lot of points where you can plug in your custom application logic, so if you want to understand and master the internals of the framework then get the source code of the JSF implementation (myfaces, mojarra etc) you are using and go through this article. Thanks to Damodar Chetty for this article.
Another excellent article is by ever amazing BaluC on JSF lifecycle.