I have used the CDK to create reusable components (specific to my purposes) that contain references to other components. Apparently, the CDK does not support component aggregations/compositions. How then can I interpret its output into an actual component tree?
Why? I need to dynamically create each component at runtime based upon a complex rendering model. Any hints (besides abandoning the CDK path entirely), would be very, very helpful! Certainly someone has done something like this before, no?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<f:root xmlns:f="http://ajax4jsf.org/cdk/template"
xmlns:c=" http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:ui=" http://ajax4jsf.org/cdk/ui"
xmlns:u=" http://ajax4jsf.org/cdk/u"
xmlns:x=" http://ajax4jsf.org/cdk/x"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
class="com.company.app.rp.renderkit.html.DateItemRenderer"
baseclass="com.company.app.rp.renderkit.DateItemRendererBase"
component="com.company.app.rp.component.UIDateItem">
<!--
Renders a Date object and converts it according to the date format.The UIDateItem
class extends HtmlOutputText, so that it may inherit both the #setStyle #setStyleClass
methonds, one of which is referenced below (component.style)
@author chq-jasons
@version 1.0
@since JSF 1.2, JDK 1.5
-->
<f:clientid var="clientId" />
<h:outputText value="#{component.date}" id="#{clientId}" x:passThruWithExclusions="value,id" style="#{component.style}}">
<f:convertDateTime pattern="#{component.dateFormat}" />
</h:outputText>
<f:call name="writeClass"/>
</f:root>
The output rendered in the browser....
<h:outputtext id="j_id16" style="">
<f:convertdatetime/>
</h:outputtext>
