UIX Templates and JSF

Question

What is the templating mechanism in JSF. So far I can't find any native suport and have been advised to use Facelets.
Does anyone have an opinion on this.
Thanks
Pat

Answer 1

We also had the same problem.
We used the panel page, for enclosing all our UI components. We removed all the menu, header, branding tags from the page.
We thaen used a txt file having....
<f:facet name="menu1">
<af:menuTabs>
<af:commandMenuItem text="Cases"
action="#{backing_view_dockets_docketsEdit.onCasesMenuClick}"
immediate="true"/>
<af:commandMenuItem text="Parties" immediate="true"
action="#{backing_view_parties_partiesEdit.onPartiesMenuClick}"/>
<af:commandMenuItem text="General Documents" immediate="true"
action="#{backing_view_genDocs_genDocsEdit.onGDMenuClick}"/>
<af:commandMenuItem text="RTS Events"/>
<af:commandMenuItem text="Global Search" onclick="globalSearch()"/>
<af:commandMenuItem text="Content Browse" onclick="htree()"/>
<af:commandMenuItem text="Log Out" action="logout"/>
</af:menuTabs>
</f:facet>
<f:facet name="menuGlobal"/>
<f:facet name="branding">
<af:objectImage height="62" width="456" source="../../images/atmos_logo_wb.gif"/>
</f:facet>
<f:facet name="brandingApp"/>
<f:facet name="appCopyright"/>
<f:facet name="appPrivacy"/>
<f:facet name="appAbout"/>
Then we included this file in the jspx file....
<jsp:directive.include file="/view/commons/template.txt"/>
Thanks
-Gana