Oracle JDeveloper 11gR2 Cookbook

Using page templates

In this recipe, we will go over the steps required to create a JSF page template that you can use to create JSF pages throughout your application. It is very likely that for a large enterprise-scale application you will need to construct and use a number of different templates, each serving a specific purpose. Using templates to construct the actual application JSF pages will ensure that pages throughout the application are consistent, and provide a familiar look and feel to the end user. You can follow the steps presented in this recipe to construct your page templates and adapt them as needed to fit your own requirements.

Getting ready

We will be adding the JSF template to the SharedComponents ViewController project ...