Dynamic creation of components with Java is no longer supported?

[pjmlp]

Hi,

while reading the latest version of the documentation, I have noticed that all the sections named "Creating the Component Dynamically Using Java" are now gone.

Does anyone know if this no longer supported, or what was the reason for having these sections removed?

Thanks,

Paulo

[ilya_shaikovsky]

It fully supported. The reason of sections deletion:

1) It contained not good approach for components creation(application.createComponent() should bew used rather than new someComponent())

2) It's not specific to RF. RF components creation from Java code does not differs from the standard JSF components creation.

[ariefz]

1) It contained not good approach for components creation(application.createComponent() should bew used rather than new someComponent())

Interesting!

Do you mind sharing what's the benefit of using application.createComponent()? rather than the typical instantiation...

Thanks.

[nbelaevski]

application.createComponent() accepts component type String parameter. This means that:

• You can create component using its type and set it up via generic UIComponent API, so you don't have to depend on concrete component class in your project.
• Component classes can be easily overriden by registering component types & fully-qualified classes names in faces-config.xml. That's not possible if you are creating component explicitly.   

[pjmlp]

Thanks for the feedback and tips.