JavaServer Faces

Developing the ViewHandler

The com.mycompany.jsf.pl.XMLViewHandlerImlp supports this type of view, defined by the combination of a view specification class and an HTML template:

package com.mycompany.jsf.pl;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Stack;

import javax.faces.application.Application;
import javax.faces.application.ViewHandler;
import javax.faces.component.ActionSource;
import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;
import javax.faces.component.UISelectMany;
import javax.faces.component.UISelectOne;
import javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot;
import javax.faces.context.ExternalContext;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.faces.context.ResponseWriter;
import javax.faces.el.PropertyNotFoundException;
import javax.faces.el.ValueBinding;
import javax.faces.el.MethodBinding;

import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;

public class XMLViewHandlerImpl extends ViewHandlerImpl {

    public XMLViewHandlerImpl(ViewHandler origViewHandler) {
        super(origViewHandler);
    }

The XMLViewHandlerImpl class extends the ClassViewHandlerImpl class we developed in the previous section and inherits all its public methods. The differences ...