ui:repeat is a subset of the tomahawk t:dataList tag. Maybe that's an option for you. I know we talked about moving t:dataList out of tomahawk and into the extensions jar since most of its functionality is behavioral rather than markup. I don't think that's happened yet, though.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Scott Carter<[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
