The Definitive Guide to Jakarta Faces in Jakarta EE 10: Building Java-Based Enterprise Web Applications

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B. Scholtz, A. TijmsThe Definitive Guide to Jakarta Faces in Jakarta EE 10https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7310-4_3

3. Components

Bauke Scholtz¹   and Arjan Tijms²

(1)

Willemstad, Curaçao

(2)

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

 

Jakarta Faces is a component-based MVC (model-view-controller) framework. In essence, Jakarta Faces parses the view definition into a “component tree.” The root of this tree is represented by the “view root” instance associated with the current instance of the faces context.

UIComponent tree = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getViewRoot();

The view is usually defined using XHTML+XML markup in a Facelets file. XML is a markup language ...