© Michael Müller 2018
Michael MüllerPractical JSF in Java EE 8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3030-5_23

23. Repetitive Structures

Michael Müller1 
(1)
Brühl, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
 
So far, we’ve used three different tags for repetitive structures :

  • c:forEach

  • ui:repeat

  • h:dataTable

In this chapter we’ll discuss the differences and coverage among these.

The first two elements are used to repeat everything between the opening and closing tags. As a developer, it’s up to you to choose the right structure within the HTML. Without a special structure, you may simply concatenate strings to a paragraph. Or you may nest it within a table tag and repeat the rows to render a table. Or you might create a list using the HTML <ul> or <ol> elements with ...

Get Practical JSF in Java EE 8: Web Applications ​in Java for the Enterprise now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial