Richfaces + Facelets

[ilya80]

Calling for advice here.

I`m trying to add facelets to richfaces-enabled application, and cant get it to work right.

I added the following to the web.xml:

 <context-param>
 <param-name>facelets.REFRESH_PERIOD</param-name>
 <param-value>2</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <context-param>
 <param-name>facelets.DEVELOPMENT</param-name>
 <param-value>true</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <context-param>
 <param-name>org.ajax4jsf.VIEW_HANDLERS</param-name>
 <param-value>com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler</param-value>
 </context-param>

when i add

<view-handler>com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler</view-handler>

to my application definition in faces-config.xml and put the 1.1.13 jsf-facelets.jar to my libs, everything breaks and things just stop working for me.

if i do not though, templates are working but in a wrong way.

suppose i have a aj4:include that inserts "current page" portion into my main panel. When i replace my working .jspx with one that uses template following can be observed.

1) text outside of <ui:composition>...</ui:composition> gets rendered.
2) templated portion of mainpanel gets rendered every other try.
3) templated portion of mainpanel gets its layout messed up, like:

<template.jspx>

...

<h:panelGrid columns="2" style="width: 100%;" styleClass="main" columnClasses="commonCell">
<ui:insert name="part1">Default text</ui:insert>
<ui:insert name="part2">Default text</ui:insert>
</h:panelGrid>

...

<page.jspx>

<jsp:root version="2.0"
 xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
 xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
 xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
 xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
 xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
 xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich">
<ui:composition template="/res/xhtml/template.jspx">
 <ui:define name="part1">

....

 </ui:define>

 <ui:define name="part2">

....

 </ui:define>


</ui:composition>
</jsp:root>

part2 is rendered below part1, and not next to it (as it correctly does in non-templated version of .jspx)

Any comments, please?

[ilya_shaikovsky]

At first you need to define only one facelets view handler. You can't define both in faces confing and web.xml.

To achieve layout you need just move panelGrid to template ;)

 <h:panelGrid columns="2">
 <ui:insert name="body"></ui:insert>
 <ui:insert name="body2"></ui:insert>
 </h:panelGrid>

Works as you need for me.

[ilya80]

"ilya_shaikovsky" wrote:
At first you need to define only one facelets view handler. You can't define both in faces confing and web.xml.

yeah, figured that out in the documentation.

"ilya_shaikovsky" wrote:

To achieve layout you need just move panelGrid to template ;)

 <h:panelGrid columns="2">
 <ui:insert name="body"></ui:insert>
 <ui:insert name="body2"></ui:insert>
 </h:panelGrid>

Works as you need for me.

well my h:panelGrid is defined in the template already as i mentioned above, and it doesnt work for me. could it be because of <jsp:root> element declaration in <page.jspx> ?

guess i`ll have to dig a bit more.

[ilya_shaikovsky]

sorry.. I've looked wrong snippet.. but as I mentioned the grid in template helps me..