What is the difference between Custom Components and Composite Components?

Question

What is the difference between JSF Custom Components and Facelets Composite Components?

Answer 1

JSF custom components are Java classes which extend UIComponent. Facelets composite components are XHTML files which use http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite namespace.

See also:

• When to use <ui:include>, tag files, composite components and/or custom components?