Question

Doing a RichFaces/jsf project in a new job, haven’t been doing it long.

The main page has a xhtml page that has a frameset. In an ideal world it wouldn’t have but it has and it needs to stay that way, but when you log in as a certain level of user, the side frames aren’t used.

<frameset cols="#{Base.sideBars['left'].width},*,#{Base.sideBars['right'].width}" id="contentframes" >
<frame name="left" src="left.jsf" id="leftframe"/>
<frame name="center" src="center.jsf" id="centerframe" />
<frame name="right" src="right.jsf" id="rightframe" />
</frameset>

is there a ‘native’ way of changing this so that I just include the center frame, or is it just easier to change it to a jsp and put an if / else around it?

What I need is the resultant html that is like this:

<frameset cols="20,*,20" id="contentframes" >
<frame name="left" src="left.jsf" id="leftframe"/>
<frame name="center" src="center.jsf" id="centerframe" />
<frame name="right" src="right.jsf" id="rightframe" />
</frameset>

when you log in as one user, but if the other user logs in, you just include the elements that were in centerframe.jsf without any frames at all.

Answer 1

if else would be better. or even you can manage it by

<frame name="center" src="#{someBean.centerPage}.jsf" id="centerframe" />