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

by Bauke Scholtz, Arjan Tijms
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
516 pages
11h 40m
English
Apress
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© 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_7

7. Facelets Templating

Bauke Scholtz1  and Arjan Tijms2
(1)
Willemstad, Curaçao
(2)
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
 

When JSF (JavaServer Faces) came out for first time in 2004, only JSP (Java Server Pages) had view technology. It was immediately clear that it was an ill-suited view technology for web development with JSF. The problem with JSP is that it writes to the HTTP response as soon as it encounters template text, while JSF would like to first create a component tree based on the view declaration in order to be able to perform the life cycle processing on it. For example, the following JSF ...

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