Matthias Kahlau wrote:
Hi all!
I have a use case which demands some JSF pages to be created on the fly. Can
you share experiences and thoughts about this use case?
I can imagine two different solutions:
1) Writing the hole JSF pages from scratch by using the Servlet API. Not
really satisfying, I think - bad to maintain etc.
2) Creating the JSF pages by using fragments of partial pages and JSF EL,
JSTL or some other utilities to dynamically create the components of the
pages dependent on some parameters.
I already read that creating components in JSTL loops isn't possible,
because the JSF components to render have to be known before the JSTL is
executed.
Easier...
do a blank page, write a backend bean, and do the rendering on code
level there.
JSF has a full blown component tree facility, which allows such things.
