Custom Tag Calling

Question

Can someone describe the process that JSF Servers use to call a tag. I'm writing a custom tag (actually a library of them) and I need one to call another tag.
in other words:
instead of:
<my:tag1> <my:tag2>
i'm creating a class called my:tag3, that will call both my:tag1 and my:tag2.
That's the short of it, my:tag3 is actually going to do some nifty stuff on the back end, but thats not required for this question. So, how do I get my:tag3's encodeEnd(...) function to create my:tag1 and my:tag2 in the javacode?
Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

I'm writing a custom tag [...] and I need one to call another tag.
in other words:
instead of:
<my:tag1> <my:tag2>
i'm creating a class called my:tag3, that will call both my:tag1 and my:tag2.Do you really need JSP tags for <my:tag1> and <my:tag2>? A tag is just one way of creating a JSF component.
Another way is to associate (in faces-config.xml) a JSF component (of type UITag3) with the tag <my:tag3>. This UITag3 will have 2 sub-components, of type UITag1 and UITag2 and these components are created (and added to the UITag3 component) in the setProperties() method in UITag3Tag.
For example:
public class MyTag3Tag extends UIComponentTag {
    public String getComponentType() { return "my.tag3"; }
    public String getRendererType() { return null; }
    protected void setProperties(UIComponent component) {
        super.setProperties(component);
        List children = component.getChildren();       
        UITag1 child1 = new UITag1();
        child1.setValue("XXX");
        children.add(child1);
        UITag2 child2 = new UITag2();
        child2.setValue("YYY");
        children.add(child2);
}Geoff Rimmer