outputText for abbr. text with ellipsis

[Rick Gruber-Riemer <ri...@vanosten.net>]

Hej

In some columns of datatables I would like to abbreviate the text when the 
text has more than x characters. Right now I have a special getter in the 
beans to return an abbreviated string of a hardcoded length 
( str.substring(0,abbreviationLength - 2) + " \u2026";). I do not like this, 
because the length should be configured in the jsf-file by the page-designer.

=> Does someone know of a JSF-component like h:outputText, which has this 
feature of abbreviating a text with ellipses? OR is there an obvious way to 
do this?

Thanks ... Rick