Trying to avoid building my own menu for this, as it should be a very common pattern to have a menu built from a list. I am using richfaces which has all of the AJAX stuff written for me.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:30 PM, John Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > Ui:repeat can be used in faces markup (.jspx?) There are cases when you > need to use c:forEach instead of ui:repeat. > > > > Perhaps you should look for a dynamic menu that takes a collection. Or > build your menu in Java code (use or subclass a component in your code). > > > > John > > > > *From:* Scott Carter [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, August 03, 2009 2:11 PM > *To:* MyFaces Discussion > *Subject:* iterating over a list of items > > > > 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. >
