JavaServer Faces

Registering the Component and the Renderer

The components and its renderer are registered like this in the faces-config.xml file:

<faces-config>
  ...
  <component>
    <component-type>
      com.mycompany.Tree
    </component-type>
    <component-class>
      com.mycompany.jsf.component.UITree
    </component-class>
  </component>
  ...
  <render-kit>
    <renderer>
      <component-family>com.mycompany.Tree</component-family>
      <renderer-type>com.mycompany.Tree</renderer-type>
      <renderer-class>
        com.mycompany.jsf.renderer.TreeRenderer
      </renderer-class>
    </renderer>
  </render-kit>
  ...
</faces-config>

This is the same kind of declarations as you’ve seen earlier, with a <component> element for mapping the component type identifier to the component implementation class and a <renderer> element for mapping the combination of a component family and a renderer type to the renderer implementation class.