plz check these stuffs, hopefully they work out. (not sequential)

1. "items" must be defined as a variable of <f:dataTable e.g.:
<t:dataTable value="#{aBean.collectionItems}" var="items" ...

2. Define getCollectionItems, which returns a Collection, in bean of class A.

3. Class A should be Serializable. e.g. public class A implements Serializable {...};

4. Class A must be defined in your faces-config.xml

Actually, jsf  errors and exceptions are really crap :)) But, JSF is so useful and I believe that it will capture the interface layer market or at least it is influenced dramatically, by the way.

Obviously, you can buy whatever you want and need through the Amazon.com. probably you can find free e-book about JSF in the following listed web sites, but I'm not sure, cos I didnt try to find it before.

www.free-itebooks.com
www.freeebookdownload.net
www.ebookee.com

Also, I've found http://horstmann.com/corejsf/jsf-tags.html pretty useful. It describes basic JSF tags. Apache is good, as well. and if u can find the following book can really helpful, especially in advance usage of JSF, configiration stuff like that:
Mann, K.D. (2005), "JSF in Action", Manning, USA

Your code  is correct . I think some others problem  has been occurring. Let me know your errors.

Please post the exception message you've got.
There is no official website to download  any ebook regarding JSF,

I think you wanna send  parameter to action  to delete a person in your sample, but in correct way you should send an object like 'person entity' to delete it.
so, in this tag '<f:param name="selectpersonalid" value="#{items.persinalid}"/>
you shuold implement like it :

FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();

if(facesContext == null) {
   System.out.println("facesContext is null");
} else {
   String id = (String) facesContext.getExternalContext().getRequestParameterMap().get("selectpersonalid");
}
and the best practice is use SEAM Framework and it's Annotations, like this :

@RequestParameter("selectpersonalid")
private String selectpersonalid;