This blog entry opens a series of short articles describing my studying of facelets and attempts to apply it in our platform.
Problem using JSF with JSPs.
First of all, why does our platform need facelets? Currently we are using JSPs with custom JSF tags inside so what’s the problem with combining JSF and JSP? There are lots of good articles related to this topic, so I won’t be repeating their authors. I’ll just briefly sum up main idea.
- JSP’s goal is to produce static and dynamic content based on HTML/scriptlet mixture; technically speaking JSP produces a servlet. JSP page is processed in one pass from top to bottom, with JSP action elements processed in the order in which they appear in the page.