Category Archives: JSF

Facelets ui:repeat tag

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Robert Piasecki

Facelets ui:repeat tag can be used as a substitute of h:dataTable tag from JSF HTML library or c:forEach tag from JSTL core library. While using h:dataTable tag is still the preferred method to create tables, ui:repeat tag gives developer more … Continue reading →

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Data tables in JSF

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Robert Piasecki

Data table is one of the most advanced UI components provided by JSF. This component is used to represent data in a table form and can contain multiple rows and columns and optionally header, footer and caption. In this post … Continue reading →

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JSF Facelets: templates

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Robert Piasecki

Facelets were introduced in JSF 2.0 to resolve common inefficiencies in JSF when creating large-scale sites. Two most useful additions provided by facelets were the ability to reuse the code through templating and to create custom composite components conveniently. In … Continue reading →

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Monitoring AJAX request lifecycle in JSF

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Robert Piasecki

Sometimes when working with AJAX in JSF you may find it useful to able to perform some actions before the request is sent to server, after the response is received and when some error occurs. The common case is to … Continue reading →

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Basic AJAX in JSF

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Robert Piasecki

In this article I would like to describe how to send AJAX request to server, receive the response and update the page accordingly. As an example I will use a simple application which allows choosing country from a list. Once … Continue reading →

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