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Asked: 2026-05-15T13:32:22+00:00

I am trying to create a custom tag with Facelets but it isn’t rendering

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I am trying to create a custom tag with Facelets but it isn’t rendering (i.e. the tag appears unreplaced in the response).

The tag (/WEB-INF/facelets/tags/inputThumbnailSelector.xhtml): 

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
   xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
   xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
   xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
   xmlns:t="http://myfaces.apache.org/tomahawk">

<ui:composition>
 <div style="position: relative;">
  <img style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;" src="#{image}"/>
  <div class="thumbnail-selector" style="position: absolute; left: #{backingBean.thumbnailLeft}; top: #{backingBean.thumbnailTop};"/>
 </div>
</ui:composition>

</html>

/WEB-INF/facelets/tags/panayk.taglib.xml: 

<!DOCTYPE facelet-taglib PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Facelet Taglib 1.0//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/facelet-taglib_1_0.dtd">

<facelet-taglib>
 <namespace>http://panayk.endofinternet.org/jsf</namespace>
 <tag>
  <tag-name>inputThumbnailSelector</tag-name>
  <source>inputThumbnailSelector.xhtml</source>
 </tag>
</facelet-taglib>

My web.xml contains:

<context-param>
 <param-name>javax.faces.FACELETS_LIBRARIES</param-name>
 <param-value>/WEB-INF/facelets/tags/panayk.taglib.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

This is how the tag is called:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
   xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
   xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
   xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
   xmlns:t="http://myfaces.apache.org/tomahawk"
   xmlns:my="http://panayk.endofinternet.org/jsf">

<ui:composition template="/layout/layout.xhtml">
...  
   <my:inputThumbnailSelector image="${facesContext.externalContext.requestContextPath}/image/get.servlet?id=1" 
            backingBean="#{entryHandler}"/>
...
</ui:composition>

</html>

Many thanks in advance!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I found my answer here: https://community.oracle.com/thread/1719525

    I think I found the problem and the solution (which is not 100% correct). The context param should be facelets.LIBRARIES not javax.faces.FACELETS_LIBRARIES.

    The context param javax.faces.FACELETS_LIBRARIES is supposed to replace the deprecated (deprecated as per JSF specification) context param facelets.LIBRARIES. When the latter is used there is a warning in the logs during server startup saying facelets.LIBRARIES is deprecated and javax.faces.FACELETS_LIBRARIES should be used instead. But I think this is only used for logging a warning, i.e. still the name facelets.LIBRARIES is used to build custom taglib components. I’m saying this is not 100% correct because it should work with the new parameter name. There are other parameters which have got new names, but I didn’t test them yet.

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