Creating programmatic menus

Programmatic menus offer a more flexible way in comparison with the declarative approach. The whole menu structure can be created in Java and bound as a model to the p:menu tag. Programmatic menu creation is the best choice when we load a menu definition from a database or XML file, and if the menu structure is not known beforehand.

In this recipe, we will learn about the PrimeFaces menu model and create a programmatic menu.

How to do it…

Every programmatically created menu instance should implement the org.primefaces.model.MenuModel Java interface. PrimeFaces provides a default implementation, org.primefaces.model.DefaultMenuModel, that is sufficient to use in most cases. Your own customized implementations of MenuModel ...

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