Facelets Essentials: Guide to JavaServer Faces View by Bruno Aranda, Zubin Wadia

By Bruno Aranda, Zubin Wadia

Facelets is a templating language built from the floor up with JavaServer Faces in brain. Created based on the various issues concerning JSP whilst development JavaServer Faces perspectives, Facelets steps open air of the JSP specification and gives a hugely performant, JSF–centric view know-how. Facelets most sensible homes, templating, reuse, and straightforwardness of improvement, permits it to aid making JSF a expertise appropriate for large–scale initiatives. one of many first issues a developer utilizing Facelets reveals is that it instantly ends up in a discount in UI code.

Facelets Essentials, the 1st booklet on Facelets, introduces you to its value, structure, and dating to JSF and the Apache MyFaces net framework. discover ways to create your first software utilizing the facility and suppleness Facelets deals. Then, grasp and practice its simple and complicated positive aspects together with Unified Expression Language, templating and reuse, customized tag improvement, and more.

What you’ll learn

  • See why you can use Facelets and the Facelets architecture.
  • Ccreate your first program with Facelets.
  • Use the Facelets Unified Expression Language.
  • Explore Facelets templating and reuse, in addition to the tag reference and customized tag development.
  • Create composition components.
  • Extend the ViewHandler.
  • And more

Who is that this publication for?

This booklet is for Java net builders who're utilizing or skilled with JSF and maybe studying to exploit the MyFaces internet framework.

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This and everything before this will be ignored. lifeExpectancy}" /> This and everything after this will be ignored. We can use the composition tag to populate a template, as shown in the example from the “Creating JSF Views” section. xhtml template. The major players where creating composite views with Facelets are the ui:composition, ui:define, and ui:insert tags. The latter two are explained later in this section. The debug tag is a very useful tool when developing an application.

Listing 1-18. xhtml). The resulting relevant output follows:

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Family: Accipitridae Facelets Essentials The ui:remove tag is used to remove blocks of code at compilation time. It has no attributes, though you can use this tag in conjunction with the jsfc attribute. This tag provides a way to remove parts of the document used during development or testing when the application goes into production, allowing to retain these bits of code for use later if further development or bug fixes are needed.

If none is present, Facelets will create an id following the JavaServer specification rules. binding No Following the JavaServer specification, this attribute can be used to reference a UIComponent instance by pointing to a property of managed bean. The instance will be lazily created if the property did not have an instance assigned already. Everything outside of this component’s tags will be ignored by the compiler and won’t appear on the rendered view: This and everything before this will be ignored.

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