Core JavaServer™ Faces

Chapter 11. Custom Components, Converters, and Validators

Topics in This Chapter

• “Implementing a Component Class” on page 420

• “Encoding: Generating Markup” on page 424

• “Decoding: Processing Request Values” on page 427

• “The Tag Library Descriptor” on page 433

• “Using an External Renderer” on page 438

• “Processing Tag Attributes” on page 441

• “Encoding JavaScript” on page 453

• “Using Child Components and Facets” on page 457

• “Saving and Restoring State” on page 468

• “Building Ajax Components” on page 473

JSF provides a basic set of components for building HTML-based web applications, such as text fields, checkboxes, buttons, and so on. You saw in Chapter 9 how to compose these components into more advanced components. However, ...