How to make a grid of JSF composite component?

Question

I have lot\'s of outputLabel and inputText pairs in panelGrids

Answer 1

A composite component gets indeed rendered as a single component. You want to use a Facelet tag file instead. It gets rendered exactly as whatever its output renders. Here's a kickoff example assuming that you want a 3-column form with a message field in the third column.

Create tag file in /WEB-INF/tags/input.xhtml (or in /META-INF when you want to provide tags in a JAR file which is to be included in /WEB-INF/lib).

Define it in /WEB-INF/example.taglib.xml (or in /META-INF when you want to provide tags in a JAR file which is to be included in /WEB-INF/lib):

    http://example.com/jsf/facelets
    
        input
        tags/input.xhtml
    

Declare the taglib usage in /WEB-INF/web.xml (this is not needed when the tags are provided by a JAR file which is included in /WEB-INF/lib! JSF will auto-load all *.taglib.xml files from /META-INF).

    javax.faces.FACELETS_LIBRARIES
    /WEB-INF/example.taglib.xml

(multiple taglib files can be separated by semicolon ;)

Finally just declare it in your main page templates.

(the #{bean.countries} should return a Map with country codes as keys and country names as values)

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Hope this helps.