5 Replies Latest reply on May 8, 2008 7:03 PM by www.supernovasoftware.com

Where to put the Facelets templates when my app xhtml's are in subdirectories

medibadge May 8, 2008 5:04 PM

In all of the example apps and Seam Gen apps the xhtml's are in a single view directory as follows:

+view
  +img
  +layout
  +stylesheet
  all of the app's xhtml files

Everything beneath the view directory ends up in the root of the app.war file.

Instead of all of the app's xhtml files in a single directory I want to organize the app xhtml files in subdirectories, but I don't want to have to do this in one xhtml:

<ui:composition ... template="../layout/template.xhtml">

and then do this in another xhtml when I am one directory deeper

<ui:composition ... template="../../layout/template.xhtml">

I have read on the web that it's OK to put your templates under /WEB-INF/ to address this problem. However, I was wondering:

(1) Why don't any of these example apps organize their xhtml files in subdirectories? It makes me think I am missing something and that all the app's xhtmls should all be in the same directory.

(2) If using subdirectories for the app xhtml's then where is the best place to put the img, layout, and stylesheet directories so they will be found?

I am new to Seam, and am using jboss-4.2.2.GA and jboss-seam-2.0.1.GA in an EJB3 application.

Thanks in advance.

Dick Starr

1. Re: Where to put the Facelets templates when my app xhtml's are in subdirectories

tom_goring May 8, 2008 5:33 PM (in response to medibadge)
Why not refer to as

/layout/template.xhtml

thats what I do.
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2. Re: Where to put the Facelets templates when my app xhtml's are in subdirectories

medibadge May 8, 2008 6:27 PM (in response to medibadge)
Thank you Tom, that works.

However, this fails when my xhtml is down one directory:

<img src="/img/runningon_seamlogo.gif"/>

But it works if I do:

<img src="../img/runningon_seamlogo.gif"/>
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3. Re: Where to put the Facelets templates when my app xhtml's are in subdirectories

tom_goring May 8, 2008 6:43 PM (in response to medibadge)
For external references do...

<img src="#{facesContext.externalContext.requestContextPath}/img/ajax-logo.jpg"/>
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4. Re: Where to put the Facelets templates when my app xhtml's are in subdirectories

medibadge May 8, 2008 6:59 PM (in response to medibadge)
Thanks again, everything is working fine.

This also works:

<h:graphicImage url="/img/runningon_seamlogo.gif"/>
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5. Re: Where to put the Facelets templates when my app xhtml's are in subdirectories

www.supernovasoftware.com May 8, 2008 7:03 PM (in response to medibadge)

I use the following.

@Name("basePathBean")
public class BasePath                 
{
  
  @SuppressWarnings("unused")
  @Out(scope = ScopeType.SESSION, required = false)
  private String basePath;  
  
  @In private FacesContext facesContext;  
  
  @Factory("basePath")
  public void loadBasePath()
  {
      HttpServletRequest  request = (HttpServletRequest) facesContext.getExternalContext().getRequest();
     basePath = request.getScheme() + "://" +
                request.getServerName() + ":" + 
                request.getServerPort() + request.getContextPath() + "/";
  }  

}

     <html>
          <head>
               <base href="#{basePath}" />

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