Lecture 5 - Facelets + Data Tables

Question 1

What is a Facelet?

Answer 1

A view handler for faces, replaces JSP.

Question 2

To use Facelet tags, what namespace declaration is needed?

Answer 2

xmlns:ui=”jakarta.faces.facelets”

Question 3

what does ui:include do?

Answer 3

Includes contents from other xhtml pages (think of ejs)

Typically used in ui:insert tags

Question 4

What is a facelet template and how do we use it?

Answer 4

an xhtml page that uses ui:insert and ui:include tags.
NOTE: ui:composition is used both to define the template and utilize it
ui:composition will load in the template.
ui:define tags adds replacements for template’s ui:insert tags.

Question 5

What are does ui:decorate do?

Answer 5

Creates a wrapper around HTML