Facelets support
Facelets is a templating language for JSF that enables the rendering of JSF components on XHTML files, serving as an alternative rendering medium for JSF components other than standard JSPs. As you know, Facelets is an extension of JSF especially created to simplify the design of presentation pages for JSF. To add Facelets support to your JSF projects, you start by creating a JSF project exactly as you have seen in the Creating a JSF Project Stub section. The main difference is that in the New JSF Project window (as seen in the following screenshot), you have to select JSF 1.2 with Facelets.
After you have selected the JSF Environment as JSF 1.2 with Facelets, you have to select a Template from the following list:
- FaceletsBlankWithoutLibs—this is a blank JSF project without JSF support. In this case, the JSF libraries are missing for avoiding the potential conflicts with the servers that already offer JSF support.
- FaceletsKickStartWithRILibs—this is a demo JSF/Facelets project with complete JSF/Facelets support.
- FaceletsKickStartWithoutLibs—this is a demo JSF/Facelets project without JSF/Facelets support.
Once the project stub has been created, it is important to know that the Facelets components can be taken from the JBoss Tools Palette, JSF Facelets section (as shown in the following screenshot). For more details about how to work with JBoss Tools Palette, please see Chapter 3.
