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Including JSP in a JSF framework

 
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Hello all,

I am having a problem including a jsp page into another jsp where both are using the JSF framework. My current setup is like this.

A.jsp
<taglibs>
<html>
<body>
<table>
<f:view>
<h utputText />
.........more code......
</f:view>
<jsp:include page="B.jsp" flush="false" />
</table>
</body>
</html>

B.jsp
<taglibs>
<% scriptlet %>
<f:view>
<h:form>
<table>
...Some table stuff...
</table>
</h:form>
</f:view>

Hopefully someone can look at this and give me some advice on how to structure the <jsp:include>, I've tried all sorts of things. I've tried subview in different ways to no avail. Thanks for the help.

Patrick
 
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You must use <f:subview> instead of <f:view> for the included page if you use dynamic includes. There are many other issues regarding dynamic includes, so I recommend using static includes whenever you can instead. If so, no <f:subview> element is needed because the content of the statically included file ends up as part of the including page before it's compiled.

For questions about JSF, I recommend Sun's JSF forum:
http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jsp?forum=427

I try to answer some questions here, but you have a much better chance of getting an answer in the JSF forum.
 
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Thanks Hans,

I'm also posting this in the Java forum. But I tried what you said about putting the included page in <f:subview> tags, and it does something really odd. The included page is a menu page, it has some DIV tag stuff in it where it defines the links and to put my links in there I use the <h:commandlink> tag. If I used the <f:view> and bring up just that page by itself (not included in another page), it works fine. And if I include it in a page with no <f:view> tags, it works fine. But when I include it in a page with <f:view> tags and <f:subview> tags in the included page, it's like it pulls the JSF components out of the DIV tags in the included page. I don't know if this is a bug or just something I'm doing incorrectly, but I don't understand why JSF needed to make page includes so difficult.

Anyway, any opinion on this would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Originally posted by Patrick Ferguson:
Thanks Hans,

I'm also posting this in the Java forum. But I tried what you said about putting the included page in <f:subview> tags, and it does something really odd. The included page is a menu page, it has some DIV tag stuff in it where it defines the links and to put my links in there I use the <h:commandlink> tag. If I used the <f:view> and bring up just that page by itself (not included in another page), it works fine. And if I include it in a page with no <f:view> tags, it works fine. But when I include it in a page with <f:view> tags and <f:subview> tags in the included page, it's like it pulls the JSF components out of the DIV tags in the included page. I don't know if this is a bug or just something I'm doing incorrectly, but I don't understand why JSF needed to make page includes so difficult.

Anyway, any opinion on this would be greatly appreciated.




That's what I meant with "there are many other issues regarding dynamic includes". You need to wrap all non-JSF elements within <f:verbatim> elements in the included page as well.

But again, do you really have to use a dynamic include? A static include (i.e., <%@ include file="..." %> doesn't have all these issues; you just include the file without adding any wrapping elements. Dynamic includes should be used (in JSF) only when you don't know the name of the file at design/compile time to avoid all this extra complexity.
 
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