JavaServer Faces

Name

<application>

Synopsis

The <application> element declares replacements for various pluggable classes for the application. The top-level nested elements can be declared in any order.

Syntax

<application>
  [<action-listener>actionListener</action-listener>]
  [<default-render-kit>defaultRenderKit</default-render-kit>]
  [<message-bundle>messageBundle</message-bundle>]
  [<navigation-handler>navigationHandler</navigation-handler>]
  [<view-handler>viewHandler</view-handler>]
  [<state-manager>stateManager</state-manager>]
  [<property-resolver>propertyHandler</property-resolver>]
  [<variable-resolver>variableResolver</variable-resolver>]
  [<locale-config>
     [<default-locale>defaultLocale</default-locale>]
     [<supported-locale>supportedLocale</supported-locale>]*
   </locale-config>]
</application>

The <action-listener> element contains the fully qualified class name for a class implementing the javax.faces.event.ActionListener interface, used as the default ActionListener for the application:

<action-listener>
  com.mycompany.jsf.MyActionListener
</action-listener>

The <default-render-kit> element contains identifier for a default render kit to use instead of the JSF HTML basic render kit:

<default-render-kit>myFancyHTMLKit</default-render-kit>

The <message-bundle> element contains base name for the message resource bundle containing custom message texts for the JSF standard messages (see the java.util.ResourceBundle JavaDocs and Chapter 7 for details):

<message-bundle>myMessages</message-bundle>

The <navigation-handler> ...