Question

I know about startElement, endElement, and writeAttribute methods on ResponseWriter. My problem is that I want to for example output a h:commandLink by declaring it like HtmlCommandLink link = new HtmlCommandLink(); .

How can I output other UIComponents like this in my own component? I might want to use some RichFaces ajax stuff in my components aswell so hoping I can avoid making it all by scratch.

Edit: What I’m trying to do is create my own tag library with the following tag <myTags:commentTree>. Every comment have a reply button, when the reply button is clicked I render the reply form beneath the comment. Once that is rendered, I would like to output for example the richfaces <a4j:commandButton> component. This have to be done inside my own java tag file which Ive called for CommentsTreeUI.java.

Normally I output all my elements that display the forms and buttons with writer.startElement('input', myComponent); writer.writeAttribute('type', 'button', null); but if I could instead do for example startElement('a4j:commandbutton', myComponent) that would help my ALOT since it has all the built in ajax features etc.

Any clues?

Answer 1

This problem was solved by adding new components by using

HtmlCommandButton button = new HtmlCommandButton(); button.encodeAll(context);