If you're not limited to pure JSP tag technology, you could consider the following three alternatives, which allow you to quickly create composite components:
1) Facelets 2) Shale/Clay 3) t:aliasBean + jsp includes On 9/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking at designing a simple component that would render the > following: > > 2 ListBoxes with items in each of them. Each being plugged on a > different List in the background. > > I'm trying to figure out how to do that right now... I have created a > custom component that works but does not render my listboxes. The way I > saw this was that in my component's code, in encodeBegin, I could create > 2 UISelectMany components and setting their parent to my component. > > Now be honest... Is this a horrible way to do things :p? The reason I'm > asking is because I'm trying to figure out if i can render this without > having to use the responsewriter to write HTML, ie by using another > component and calling its encodeBegin method so that later changes can > be repercuted in my component automatically. > > Are there any examples of custom components that do this? I'm figuring I > could use the ResponseWriter and iterate through the ListBoxes' lists > etc... but I'm wondering if creaeting the components and setting their > required properties is possible. > > Thanks a lot, > > Greg >
