The PrimeFaces Core dataExporter component works very well on the plain dataTable components along with providing some custom features. But the PrimeFaces Extensions exporter component is introduced to work on all the major features of the dataTable component, provides full control of customization, and extends its features to dataList components.

The exporter component is used to extract and report the tabular form of data in different formats. This component is targeted to work with all major features of dataTable, subTable, and other data iteration components such as dataList as well. Currently, the supported file formats are PDF and Excel. Both headerText and footerText columns are supported along with the value holders.

Please refer to Chapter 1, Introducing PrimeFaces Extensions, to find out the additional JARs required for PDF and Excel formats.