Content Management approach in a JSF application

Question

Hi all,
I had developed a JSF application. Now I would like to manage my application in the content management approach, that is changing the text content or image by means of an admin console. Kindly suggest me if there is any way to accomplish this.
Thanks in Advance!!

Answer 1

The richfaces editor component comes to mind, as a start.
[http://docs.jboss.org/richfaces/latest_3_3_X/en/devguide/html/rich_editor.html|http://docs.jboss.org/richfaces/latest_3_3_X/en/devguide/html/rich_editor.html]
But honestly, I would say this is a clear case of too late. If you want the content of your application to be managed, the application should have been designed and developed with that idea in mind from the very beginning. What you have now is probably just some static JSF/facelets pages with perhaps a facelets template here or there, but what you want is dynamic content where you can swap out text, images and probably have some control over where they are placed and how they space. That is not going to happen out of the box, it requires development work and careful planning. Good luck trying to work that into an existing product.