I know this subject is discussed in several places on the web, but I would like to get an updated expert opinion. I need to iterate over a list of items defined in a backing bean. In my case I am using the items in the list to construct a menu in richfaces so I will need to be able to iterate the list and define variables for each item to access the attributes. The 2 ways discussed from Google searches of achieving this are the facelets ui:repeat tag and the jstl c:foreach tag. As I understand it the facelets ui:repeat tag can not be used in a jsp page, which is what I am using (jsp). If I even try to include this tag, it is not found regardless if I have the facelets jar in my WEB-INF/lib directory.
The c:foreach has several sites of documentation on what a bad idea it is to use jstl tags in JSF pages. So I am left asking the question, what is the best way to do this? Any good code examples or links would be very appreciated as well as advice on a best practice here. Thanks in advance.
