How to create a reuseable template with header/footer/navigation?

Question

I have been playing with JSF and have a project working that has a header/footer/navigation/content panels. The project, however, goes from page 1 to page 2, etc., with each pag

Answer 1

This sounds like a classic case of a master template. In such a template you put everything that's common to all pages and then your actual pages reference this template and "fill in the blanks". In a way it's the reverse of the also classic include.

E.g.

/WEB-INF/templates/masterTemplate.xhtml:

A page uses this as follows, e.g.

/hello.xhtml

   hello

    
        Hi, this is the page