Comments on: Creating a jsf div component

By: Hari Gangadharan

Hari Gangadharan — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:29:40 +0000

A blanket comment that “JSF sucks” makes me ask “compared to what?”. At the present time JSF may be one of the best Web UI environments in *Java*. But JSF without Facelets is inadequate. If you have facelets you can do all the layout/formatting in Facelets. JSF+RichFaces+jQuery is one of the best environments.

Hari Gangadharan

By: JSF sucks « Incremental Operations

JSF sucks « Incremental Operations — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:04:36 +0000

[...] Creating a jsf div component – blog post by Andrej Koelewijn. The amount of code and effort that is required for just [...]

By: Hari Gangadharan

Hari Gangadharan — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:08:43 +0000

Sucks! they stipped my adf code… I mean in ADF you can render a div using af:panelGroup with layout=”vertical”.

By: Hari Gangadharan

Hari Gangadharan — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:07:22 +0000

Good writeup. But each framework has one or another way to render a div but div cannot be rendered in plain JSF-RI. In RichFaces / A4J you can use a4j:outputPanel with layout=”block”. Using ADF is the worst thing you can do… I am stuck with ADF for our main UI app. But in ADF also you can create a DIV using . I love JSF + facelet + Richfaces + jQuery – that is the best stack you can have!

Hari Gangadharan

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:30:15 +0000

Last comment dropped the source that I tried to include, anyway the output is rendered exactly as it is in the JSF wt:Div page rather than as a simple HTML div

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:28:47 +0000

Hi I am having trouble getting the div to render as a div? I have built a very simple project following the steps above but when the page renders the output is not as expected

Here is what you would expect
Hello World
I get this
Hello Wolrd

Any thoughts? I am using thin in an ADF Faces app would that make a difference?

By: Salman

Salman — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:46:12 +0000

@ atiktepika, I my limited experience with JSF, I have learned that there should always be a form inside the body of the page that JSF would render as HTML. Further more, both the div and form tags are “container” tags in terms of valid HTML structures divs should not be nested in a form tag.

By: Miroslav Nachev

Miroslav Nachev — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:43:28 +0000

Here is written that with DIV is possible to be created so good looking Web UI Components (Table) like SwingX (http://www.swinglabs.org/) components. Unfortunately I am not meet such components until now.
If there are, can you give me some URL (link)?

By: atiktepika

atiktepika — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:10:40 +0000

I’m using rational (websphere), anyone knows why I must to insert the div tag inside a form tag? I can’t use them whihout a form tag? Thanks for all.

By: Andrej Koelewijn

Andrej Koelewijn — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 19:20:40 +0000

I believe the panelGroup component doesn’t create divs, it creates spans, and only if you provide it with an attribute. Otherwise it doesn’t write out the span tag.