Practical JSF in Java EE 8: Web Applications ​in Java for the Enterprise

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

23. Repetitive Structures

Michael Müller¹ 

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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 ...