Component Generation
Dynamic field references are useful when you do not know what fields to display. Component generation comes into play when you do not know what object to render. It allows the construction of a Visualforce page from Apex code.
To start using component generation, add one or more dynamicComponent elements to your Visualforce page. This serves as the container into which the generated components are injected. The dynamicComponent is bound to a controller method, specified in the componentValue attribute, that must return an instance of Component.Apex.* to be rendered.
Listings 7.17 and 7.18 show a controller and page that leverage component generation to display a detail component bound to the user’s selection of one of three ...
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