Comments on: Create a Common Facelets Tag Library: Share it across projects

By: Lincoln

Lincoln — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:15:26 +0000

Hey Abdellah,

You’d have to ask that blog owner for more information. I know he was very successful getting it to work in his PrimeFaces project (there is a very active community on those forums, and he/they may be able to help you out.

I hope this points you in the right direction!

By: abdellah

abdellah — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:24:46 +0000

Hi lincoln,

thank u for your Response.
i’m not using jsf 2.0 ,and i try to crate a custom ResourcePhaseListener ,but it still not load the CSS and javascript files from the JAR-File.
In one custom Tag i have CSS inside like:

a.button {
background: transparent url(images/But_norm_re.png) no-repeat 100% 0;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Sans-Serif ;
}

and the picture:But_norm_re.png still not appear!

By: Lincoln

Lincoln — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:08:34 +0000

If you are using JSF2, you can use the built-in resource handling functionality. Such as… image=”#{resource['images:back.jpg']}”

Which will look for ../WebContent/resources/images/back.jpg, and META-INF/resources/images/back.jpg (depending if you have placed these in your web root or a JAR file), and insert that image into the output.

If you are not using JSF2, then you can create a custom Resources Servlet. Several example solutions can be found here:

http://cagataycivici.wordpress.com/2006/05/09/jsf_serving_resources_from_a/

By: abdellah

abdellah — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:52:29 +0000

Hi Lincoln,

thank you for this article!
Have you tried to include resources (js, css or images…) in the JAR file ?
Where should I put resources in the jar and how to reference it inside my facelet page?

Thanks
Abdellah

By: Brian LEathem

Brian LEathem — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:36:08 +0000

Creating a custom resource resolver is unnecessary. All you have to do is put your taglib and tags in the META-INF folder of your jar, and facelets will automatically resolve them. You even don’t have to put the taglib in your web.xml.

See:
https://facelets.dev.java.net/nonav/docs/dev/docbook.html#taglib-web
http://thomaswabner.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/reuse-facelets-xhtml-files-and-taglibs-from-jar-archives/

By: Lincoln

Lincoln — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:13:34 +0000

It sounds like the .jar file containing CustomResourceResolver is not on the build path.

By: Keith Moore

Keith Moore — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:21:16 +0000

I was able to get it to work by not putting the facelets.RESOURCE_RESOLVER context-param in the web.xml. However, I had to put the CustomResourceResolver in my project source code. I would like to put this in a common project since it will be the same for every project. I dont want to have to copy and paste it into every new app and change the name to CustomResourceResolver.java. I could probably modify the build script but the target project would have the package name of the common project. This seems a little ugly. Any thoughts on how to resolve this?

By: FkJ

FkJ — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:13:05 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial, helped me a lot.

I had reRender problems with Tomcat 6 after packing templates in a JAR.

Here is the solution:

http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4205508

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:42:07 +0000

Good tutorial.
But I can’t get my Taglib to work.
It doesn’t seem to find my TLD in Netbeans and when I deploy it, it won’t work too. It just doesn’t recognise my namespace.

By: Lincoln

Lincoln — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:17:38 +0000

That’s correct! I’ve packaged the taglib with the JAR file and although Facelets complains, it still find it:

Sep 11, 2008 12:14:32 AM com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler initializeCompiler
SEVERE: Error Loading Library: /META-INF/taglib/facelets-common-taglib.xml
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /META-INF/taglib/facelets-common-taglib.xml
at com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.initializeCompiler(FaceletViewHandler.java:272)
at com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.initialize(FaceletViewHandler.java:161)
at com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.renderView(FaceletViewHandler.java:537)
at org.ajax4jsf.application.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:108)
at org.ajax4jsf.application.AjaxViewHandler.renderView(AjaxViewHandler.java:189)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:109)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:100)
———
But this later:
Sep 11, 2008 12:14:32 AM com.sun.facelets.compiler.TagLibraryConfig loadImplicit
INFO: Added Library from: jar:file:/WEB-INF/lib/facelets-common-taglib.jar!/META-INF/taglib/facelets-common-taglib.xml