Hi Simon - I'm not sure that a custom component would really solve my problem. I'm not going to know what the tabbed panes are until runtime, and there are many actions that a user could take that would alter the number and types of panes being displayed dynamically.
We're designing a web client for a product in which the thick client is built using Eclipse's Rich Client Platform. If you're not familiar with it, there's an "editor pane" area where editors can be opened and closed, and the data inside those editors can be manipulated. I have to allow for a pane to be added or removed, and there are many different potential types of panes that could be added. I've got the add/remove functionality working just fine, I just am hoping there's some way I can add the child content for each pane without having to hand code all the components for each pane. The original plan was for me to use the JSTL to iterate across the list of children and then import the appropriate pages, but as has been explained to me at length on this list, that doesn't work. For reasons outside of my control, I'm tied to using JSPs, so facelets are out, and I'm tied to using J2EE1.4, so going to the most recent version of glassfish is out, which is why I've been left in the situation where my only choice is to hand code the pane itself... I'm just hoping we can get back out of the trap and use JSPs for the pane's contents. Jeremy Sager Data Communications Product Manager Chesapeake System Solutions 410.356.6805 x120 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Simon Kitching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 6:30 PM To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: Re: Importing a JSP inside the setter method of a bound component... Jeremy Sager wrote: > Thanks in advance for any help on this one, I think it's a bit tricky. > > > > So, I have a HtmlPanelTabPane that I need to render the children of > dynamically, and I've gotten the binding down pat thanks in large part > to help from Martin M. So now I'm working inside of a java object > instead of a jsp. > > > > I've created the HtmlPanelTab children just fine, and now I am hoping > that I can import a jsp so I don't have to keep rendering child > components with java code instead of using the taglib like I want to. > > > > Now, since I know any import has to be done within an <f:subview>, I > went and figured out that a subview is a UINamingContainer, so I made > one of them. > > > > Now what? It doesn't seem like importing a page is built into any part > of faces for reasons I can't really figure out, so I'm stuck as to what > I need to do next. Do I have to get the external servlet context, find > the jsp writer, and figure out how to use import tag objects? > > > > Or, as I'm hoping, I'm not the first person to run into this challenge > and someone can tell me that it's easily solvable, or, even better, > someone can call me a dummy and show me that importing a page > programmatically in faces and I just missed the boat. You're trying to do all this inside a "backing bean"? If so, I think you'll find it all very hard work. It sounds to me like you are really writing a custom UIComponent. In this case, by writing a proper component in the normal way the JSF framework will help you - the hooks are all there for what you're trying to do. Regards, Simon
