Summary

Facelets is a large subject with many interesting aspects which are pretty hard to cover in a few chapters of a book. As you know, there are books entirely dedicated to Facelets, but I hope that in the final three chapters I managed to cover a decent part of the JSF 2.2 default VDL. Probably, the most used part of Facelets is templating; therefore, I have tried to cover some handy techniques for writing flexible and cool templates. Of course, besides skills and techniques, writing templates is also a test of the imagination. Once we master the Facelets tags and choose the right techniques, we are ready to start writing templates. If we choose some naming conventions as well, then we can easily share our templates with the JSF world, like Mamadou Lamine Ba tried in a Java.Net project at https://weblogs.java.net/blog/lamineba/archive/2011/10/03/conventional-ui-design-facelets-and-jsf-22. In addition, if we spice up our template files with some Facelets programmatic tricks, then we...