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RichFaces CDK: Building Custom Components

In this chapter we will cover one of the most interesting topics in RichFaces: building custom components with the Component Development Kit (CDK). As you can judge from this book and other resources on the Internet, RichFaces is more than just a component library for JSF. It extends JSF with advanced Ajax features and customization, client-side validation, skins, JavaScript component API, and much more. There is one great feature, however, to which we want to dedicate an entire chapter: building custom JSF components with RichFaces CDK. Note that we said JSF components and not RichFaces components. Yes, with CDK you can build custom JSF (not necessarily RichFaces) components. In our ...

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