How to render a JSP page dynamically with JSF controls ??

Question

Hi All,
I am new to JAVA and JSF. I am recently started doing a web project. First we started using plain JSP and servlets and now we are going to use JSF.
Now I am facing one problem with JSF. In a JSP page, I am having a combobox and a div and when i am selecting a value from the combo box, the div should be filled with some controls(like text boxes and comboboxes, buttons, etc) according to the selection.
I have done this in plain JSP with the help of XML/XSLT, AJAX and JavaScript. i.e. XML contains the details of the controls and XSLT transformer will give me controls in a string format in the server, AJAX helps to retrieve it and I have to simply set the div.innerHTML property to that string. It is working fine.
Now with JSF, I need to add JSF controls into my XML file, and it inturn returns the corresponding string having JSF controls easily, but i could not set it directly to div's innerHTML as the String contains JSF controls (Moreover, these JSF controls are linked with JAVA beans).
Is there any provision to add JSF controls to a running page dynamically or is there any provision to convert the above mentioned string of JSF controls to normal HTML controls like the JSF taglibraries doing.??
thanks in advance
noushad
Edited by: naash007 on Apr 20, 2009 4:17 AM
Edited by: naash007 on Apr 20, 2009 5:45 AM

Answer 1

That's simply asking for trouble. Do not suggest to use JSTL in combination with JSF.
JSF already provides almost everything which the JSTL flow control tags provides in flavour of the 'rendered' attribute.