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Asked: 2026-05-24T15:43:06+00:00

I am continuing my practices with JSF 2.0. I see templating is a great

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I am continuing my practices with JSF 2.0.
I see templating is a great thing to do, and it has lots of advantages. But today i got a new doubt related to it.

I created a template for my pages.
In the template, i use tags for the parts that are different(Those parts will be implemented later in a page using the composition tag in combination one or more define tags). 

<ui:insert name="content" />

Also inside the template, to avoid putting to much code in the template, i create tags to add some other chunks of xhtml.

<ui:include src="/languageChanger.xhtml"/>

This is how my folder structure looks:

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It all works as i spect, but when in the url i navigate to languageChanger.xhtml i see the composite chunk of xhtml:

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My doubts are:

-Is that chunk of independent code placed in the right place?, Or it is wrong, the user should not be allowed to see that from the URL?

-Is that place save to have other components like login, register…?

-To avoid user access directly the component i could place it in WEB-INF folder, but then i have a problem that the include tag does not find the path. What should i do?

-What would be the best practice, where to place this independent chunks of code?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Is that chunk of independent code placed in the right place?, Or it is wrong, the user should not be allowed to see that from the URL?

    Put it somewhere in /WEB-INF. Direct access to this folder is disallowed by the container.

    Is that place save to have other components like login, register…?

    I don’t understand you. Perhaps you meant to say “safe” instead of “save”? What do you mean with “other components”?

    To avoid user access directly the component i could place it in WEB-INF folder, but then i have a problem that the include tag does not find the path. What should i do?

    Your path was apparently plain wrong. Facelet templates, includes, tags and compositions (not composite components) can perfectly be placed in /WEB-INF.

    What would be the best practice, where to place this independent chunks of code?

    Put it in /WEB-INF. Best practice is to use absolute paths, i.e. start the path with /. It will be resolved relative to the webcontent root. E.g.

    <ui:include src="/WEB-INF/languageChanger.xhtml" />

    Only the “main” page (the one which is to be requested by URL) cannot be placed in /WEB-INF.

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