I agree, it seems strange. The JSP facet tag depicts it as a component when the tag is not associated with a JSF component at all. It's really only used as a namespace for components contained under it. If the parent tag is a facet, it's added to the facets collection; otherwise, it is added as a child to the parent component, getChildren(). The facetName could have been represented as a attribute of the faces tags?
<h:column> <h:outputText value="" facetName="tree"> </h:column> Gary > I was experimenting with using an empty facet as a placeholder so my > renderer knew where to insert something. Specifically, I am working > on a TreeTableRenderer and I thought marking a column with a facet > name of "tree" to indicate where the tree shoudl be rendered. > > <h:column> > <f:facet name="tree"/> > </h:column> > > I discovered during rendering that the facet map for the column was > null! Then if I switched to: > > <h:column> > <f:facet name="tree"> > <h:outputText value=""/> > </f:facet> > </h:column> > > I could retrieve the facet. Interesting ... This is probably the way > its supposed to work but just thought I would pass that discovery > along. I guess facet itself is just a key by which to store the > component inside the facet tag. Makes sense. > > sean
