JavaServer Faces

The TabbedRenderer Class

Let’s look at the custom renderer for the panel that contains all the tabs first. It’s a class called com.mycompany.renderer.TabbedRenderer:

package com.mycompany.jsf.renderer; import com.mycompany.jsf.component.UITabLabel; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.List; import javax.faces.context.FacesContext; import javax.faces.context.ResponseWriter; import javax.faces.component.UIComponent; import javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot; import javax.faces.render.Renderer; public class TabbedRenderer extends Renderer { public boolean getRendersChildren( ) { return true; } public void decode(FacesContext context, UIComponent component) { Iterator i = component.getChildren( ).iterator( ); while (i.hasNext( )) { UIComponent child = (UIComponent) i.next( ); if (!child.isRendered( )) { UITabLabel tabLabel = (UITabLabel) child.getFacet("label"); if (tabLabel != null) { tabLabel.processDecodes(context); } } } } public void encodeBegin(FacesContext context, UIComponent component) throws IOException { if (!component.isRendered( )) { return; } int selected = 0; List children = component.getChildren( ); boolean pickedSelected = false; for (int i = 0; i < children.size( ); i++) { UIComponent child = (UIComponent) children.get(i); if (child.isRendered( ) && !pickedSelected) { selected = i; pickedSelected = true; } else { child.setRendered(false); } } String labelAreaClass = (String) component.getAttributes( ).get("labelAreaClass"); String ...