The Definitive Guide to JSF in Java EE 8: Building Web Applications with JavaServer Faces

© Bauke Scholtz, Arjan Tijms 2018

Bauke Scholtz and Arjan TijmsThe Definitive Guide to JSF in Java EE 8https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3387-0_11

11. Custom Components

Bauke Scholtz¹  and Arjan Tijms²

(1)

Willemstad, Curaçao

(2)

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

 

In Chapter 7 you should have learned that Facelet templates as in <ui:composition>, <ui:include>, and <ui:decorate> are useful when you want to split main page layout fragments into reusable templates, such as header, menu, main content, and footer. And that Facelet tag files such as <t:field> are useful when you want to have a reusable group of components in order to minimize code duplication. And that composite components such as <t:inputLocalTime> are useful when you want to create ...