JSF Best Practice: Custom Components and JavaScript

Question

I am developing a JSF Custom Component, using the information I found on the following book Pro JSF and HTML5 by Apress.

So far, I successfully developed:

Answer 1

You can include into the facelets wich uses your component an external javascript file by adding the following code:

Within the component when you generate the XHTML output give an Id to your menu entries e.g.

and in yourjs.js

    $(document).ready(function() {

    $("#myid").click(function(){
    // dostuff
    });
    });