Chapter 10. Custom Controls

So far, you have been using the XPage design element as a container for all of your controls and other associated resources. In this chapter, you learn to refine this practice by using a slightly more specialized XPage design element—namely, the Custom Control. This chapter explains how to use Custom Controls effectively within your XPages applications and, as a result, save on development time by leveraging the reusable parts of your design.

Common design patterns can be identified in any strand of application development, regardless of the programming language, tool, or technology used to construct them. XPages application development is no different! As applications grow in size and complexity, development artifacts ...

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