General concepts in JSF

[milankoko <mi...@gmail.com>]

Hi!

I'm just getting myself known with JSF and its ways and have a couple of
questions about general concepts. It my first time developing java web app
so please forgive me if I come out stupid. I am developing my app with
myfaces 1.2 implementation of JSF.

My idea is to create some kind of online store with a general layout: menu
at the top, menu on left and a placeholder in the middle. When clicking on
items on the top nav menu whole placeholder would change its content type. I
do not know what component to use for a placeholder so I would appreciate
any tips you may have. So top menu would change whole content and navigation
would occur through action="#{bean.action}" navigation to that page. The
menu on the left would serve as filter for categories that are displayed and
selecting a category would fire ajax request that would update left menu and
placeholder in the middle with updated items.

Is this a valid solution for JSF and what kind of component can I use for a
placeholder? Is it possible to create something generic so I wouldn't have
to create a bunch of jsf pages, only one and control all components through
query strings in request?


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Re: General concepts in JSF

[Zigc Junk <zi...@gmail.com>]

Take a look at the trinidad component tr:switcher. It may serve your purpose.

regard

Bill

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:40 PM, milankoko <mi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm just getting myself known with JSF and its ways and have a couple of
> questions about general concepts. It my first time developing java web app
> so please forgive me if I come out stupid. I am developing my app with
> myfaces 1.2 implementation of JSF.
>
> My idea is to create some kind of online store with a general layout: menu
> at the top, menu on left and a placeholder in the middle. When clicking on
> items on the top nav menu whole placeholder would change its content type. I
> do not know what component to use for a placeholder so I would appreciate
> any tips you may have. So top menu would change whole content and navigation
> would occur through action="#{bean.action}" navigation to that page. The
> menu on the left would serve as filter for categories that are displayed and
> selecting a category would fire ajax request that would update left menu and
> placeholder in the middle with updated items.
>
> Is this a valid solution for JSF and what kind of component can I use for a
> placeholder? Is it possible to create something generic so I wouldn't have
> to create a bunch of jsf pages, only one and control all components through
> query strings in request?
>
>
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