Hi Dvora, I would not recommend writing your own component or renderer if this are your first steps in "JSF land". One of the most important ideas behind JSF is that JSF components form an abstraction layer to the developer of the application. The goal is that the developer doesn't have to worry about HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. So by trying to integrate a certain JavaScript library, you're breaking with that principle.
If I were you, I would start looking for a JSF library that has a nice datepicker component that does the job. There are lots of component libraries out there, and most have some sort of datepicker component. To name some component libraries (commercial as well as open source): MyFaces Trinidad <http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/>, MyFaces Tomahawk<http://myfaces.apache.org/tomahawk/>, ICEFaces <http://www.icefaces.org/>, Oracle ADF Faces<http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/adf/adffaces/index.html>,, RichFaces <http://www.jboss.org/richfaces> PrimeFaces<http://primefaces.prime.com.tr/>, ... I would like to finish with a general JSF tip: I would skip JSP and use Facelets <https://facelets.dev.java.net/> instead. (See "Facelets fits JSF like a glove <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-facelets/>" for a nice introduction.) Enjoy your first steps in JSF land! Best regards, Bart Kummel On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 17:39, Mike Kienenberger <[email protected]> wrote: > If it were me, I'd be looking at this first: > > http://www.jquery4jsf.org/ > http://code.google.com/p/jquery4jsf/ > > Then I'd consider creating non-rendering alternatives to the standard > input components. > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Dvora <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Unless I'm missing something - the link you attached talking about client > > side work, while my wish is to access the components rendered by jquery > in > > the server side backing beans... > > > > I'll try to implement the custom component as suggested above. > > > > Thanks again for the help, these are my first steps in jsf and I'm > learning > > :-) > > > > > > Mike Kienenberger wrote: > >> > >> If you're working with a specific library, you can do a search on the > >> library and jsf -- it may be that someone else has already written an > >> integration library for it. > >> > >> For example, a search on "jquery" and "jsf" turned up this -- not an > >> integration library but has an example of how to integrate individual > >> items. > >> > >> http://www.rupeal.com/2007/03/09/jquery-and-java-server-faces/ > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Dvora <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> I read the article, and I'm facing some difficulties. The article is > very > >>> dojo oriented, and the library I'm trying to work with is jquery > >>> (datepicker). I guess the second approach mentioned there is similar to > >>> the > >>> solution proposed above. Am I right? Can you please explain how does > this > >>> custom tag read the value of inner input text 'bbb' (datepicker set a > >>> date > >>> into it)? > >>> > >>> Thanks again for helping. > >>> > >>> > >>> Richard Yee wrote: > >>>> > >>>> There are a couple ways to integrate js libraries and jsf. One way is > >>>> to write custom input tags. Do a search on ' dojo jsf integration' and > >>>> you should find a very good article on it on the IBM developer site. > >>>> > >>>> R > >>>> > >>>> Sent from my iPhone > >>>> > >>>> On Sep 15, 2009, at 5:59 AM, Dvora <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Of course, this is understood. I'm asking because I would like to > >>>>> integrate > >>>>> external js library which render html elements in the page, and I > >>>>> would like > >>>>> to access these elements in the server side... > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Bart Kummel-2 wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Hi, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> What you are asking is not possible. It is against the nature of > >>>>>> JSF to do > >>>>>> so. In your example, you should use a <h:inputText> to render the > >>>>>> HTML > >>>>>> <input>. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Good luck! > >>>>>> Best regards, > >>>>>> Bart Kummel > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 14:41, Dvora <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Hello all, > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I was wondering - is it possible for the server side to access html > >>>>>>> elements > >>>>>>> (or the dom tree) that not rendered by myfaces tags? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> For example the following jsp: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"; prefix="f"%> > >>>>>>> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"; prefix="h"%> > >>>>>>> <%...@taglib uri="http://myfaces.apache.org/tomahawk"; prefix="t"%> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> <f:view> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> . > >>>>>>> . > >>>>>>> . > >>>>>>> <body> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> <h:form id="myForm"> > >>>>>>> <input id="bbb" name="bbb" type="text" value=""/> > >>>>>>> </h:form> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> </body> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> </f:view> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Can the backing bean access the 'bbb' input text element and its > >>>>>>> value? I > >>>>>>> tried to debug and inspect the FacesContext instance, but found > only > >>>>>>> Myfaces > >>>>>>> elements. > >>>>>>> -- > >>>>>>> View this message in context: > >>>>>>> > http://www.nabble.com/MyFaces---can-backing-beans-access-native-html-elements--tp25453164p25453164.html > >>>>>>> Sent from the MyFaces - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> -- > >>>>> View this message in context: > >>>>> > http://www.nabble.com/MyFaces---can-backing-beans-access-native-html-elements--tp25453164p25453541.html > >>>>> Sent from the MyFaces - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> View this message in context: > >>> > http://www.nabble.com/MyFaces---can-backing-beans-access-native-html-elements--tp25453164p25455015.html > >>> Sent from the MyFaces - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/MyFaces---can-backing-beans-access-native-html-elements--tp25453164p25455497.html > > Sent from the MyFaces - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > >
