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Getting Started
How to create a page
First of all, create a page in XHTML file format, a file with a .xhtml extension and declared the necessary Namespaces.
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<!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:ui="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:pt="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/passthrough"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:fn="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions"
xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"
xmlns:crm="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite/crm">
</html> |
Define the template of the page in a ui:composition tag.
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<ui:composition template=""></ui:composition> |
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Tag Library | URI | Prefix | Contents |
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| XHTML namespace | http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml | Tags for xhtml | |
| JavaServer Faces Facelets Tag Library | http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/facelets | ui: | Tags for templating |
| PrimeFaces components | http://primefaces.org/ui | p: | Tags for PrimeFaces components |
| JavaServer Faces Core Tag Library | http://java.sun.com/jsf/core | f: | Tags for JavaServer Faces custom actions that are independent of any particular render kit |
| Pass-through Attributes Tag Library | http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/passthrough | p: | Tags to support HTML5-friendly markup |
| JavaServer Faces HTML Tag Library | http://java.sun.com/jsf/html | h: | JavaServer Faces component tags for all UIComponent objects |
| JSTL Functions Tag Library | http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions | fn: | JSTL 1.2 Functions Tags |
| JSTL Core Tag Library | http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core | c: | JSTL 1.2 Core Tags |
| CRM Composite Components Tag Library | http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite/crm | crm: | Tags for CRM Components |
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A typical JavaServer Faces application includes one or more managed beans, each of which can be associated with the components used in a particular page.
A managed bean for summary pages must extend SummaryView class and for data entry pages must extend DataEntryView class.
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@ManagedBean(name = "summaryManagedBeanView", eager = true)
@ViewScoped
public class SummaryManagedBeanView extends SummaryView {
}
@ManagedBean(name = "dataEntryManagedBeanView", eager = true)
@ViewScoped
public class DataEntryManagedBeanView extends DataEntryView{
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Class SummaryView
SummaryView class implements Commonly Used Functions for summary pages.
Class DataEntryView
DataEntryView class implements Commonly Used Functions for data entry pages.
The below list shows functions that can be used from data entry pages:
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This method adds custom fields on the page. |
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This method initialize page parameters and is executed on GET request of a page. |
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This method returns a list of countries where country name starts with the specified search value. |
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This method sets the translations of the specified data object |
Commonly Used Functions
The below list shows functions that can be used both from summary and data entry pages:
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This method creates an archive file with the specified id. |
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