There are three ways to do this that I have successfully used. #1) Programmically create a set of controls as a new component.
#2) Use x:aliasBean and a jsp include to represent your composite control. #3) Use ui:composition with the facelets library. #1 is the hardest, most involved, and most fragile way to do it. #2 is easy and requires only a dependency on x:aliasBean. There are possibly some issues with nesting x:aliasBean controls, however. #3 is also easy and requires a dependency on the facelets library. The resulting code for #2 and #3 are very similar, and converting between them is trivial in most cases. Shale's Clay subproject probably also offers similar functionality, but I haven't used it yet. You can find an example of #1 in issue MYFACES-331: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12311217/RowAndColumnRelationshipComponent.zip An example of using #2 (without the custom component code) would look like this: <x:aliasBean alias="#{backingBean}" value="#{activityTypeCategoryActivityTypeListRelationshipDataBackingBean}"> <f:subview id="activityTypeCategoryActivityTypeListRelationshipDataDataTableView"> <jsp:include page="/pages/BooleanRelationshipDataTable.jsp"/> </f:subview> </x:aliasBean> An example of use #3 (without the custom component code) would look like this: <ui:include src="/pages/BooleanRelationshipDataTable.xhtml"> <ui:param name="backingBean" value="#{activityTypeCategoryActivityTypeListRelationshipDataBackingBean}"/> </ui:include> -Mike On 7/28/05, Dennis Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't seem to find a lot of resources on creating composite > controls ( an .ascx in .NET speak ). Does anyone have a web > site or a war story for this? > Dennis Byrne >
