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Mastering JavaServer Faces 2.2

By : Anghel Leonard
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Mastering JavaServer Faces 2.2

By: Anghel Leonard

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering JavaServer Faces 2.2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
The JSF Life Cycle
Index

Exploiting the <ui:decorate> and <ui:fragment> tags


First, let's talk about the <ui:decorate> tag. As its name suggests, this tag is used for decorating pieces of a page. Unlike <ui:composition>, this tag doesn't ignore the content that is not enclosed in it, which may be an added advantage sometimes. Well, a simple example is shown in the following code (the template attribute is mandatory):

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
  xmlns:h="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/html"
  xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/facelets">

  <h:head>
    <title></title>
  </h:head>
  <h:body>
    <h:outputText value="You can see this header text thanks to ui:decorate!"/>
      <ui:decorate template="template/layout.xhtml">  
        <ui:define name="content"&gt...