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I've looked at a few resources for JSF and facelets, but don't understand a few configuration points. What's the distinction between:

<url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>

and:

<url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>

While I understand it's possible to have several url-pattern elements, unless .jsf pages are explicitly being used, there's no actual need for this mapping, correct? If only faces templates and clients are being used, then it's extraneous?

Furthermore, if the facelet template and client are inside WEB-INF, how are they accessed?

With the latest releases for JSF and Facelets, there seems no hard requirement for faces-config.xml; correct?

Finally, if Glassfish is being used with facelets clients/templates, then the EL is through CDI?

Overall, why isn't this client:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/facelets" xmlns:h="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/html"> <body> <ui:composition template="./template.xhtml"> <ui:define name="top"> top </ui:define> <ui:define name="content"> expression language not evaluating? <h:outputLabel value="#{hello.hi(fred)}" /> </ui:define> </ui:composition> </body> </html>

using this template:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/facelets" xmlns:h="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/html"> <h:head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <h:outputStylesheet name="./css/default.css"/> <h:outputStylesheet name="./css/cssLayout.css"/> <title>Facelets Template</title> </h:head> <h:body> <div id="top" class="top"> <ui:insert name="top">Top</ui:insert> </div> <div id="content" class="center_content"> <ui:insert name="content">Content</ui:insert> </div> </h:body> </html>

with this web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app version="3.1" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"> <context-param> <param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name> <param-value>Development</param-value> </context-param> <servlet> <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <session-config> <session-timeout> 30 </session-timeout> </session-config> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>faces/client.xhtml</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> </web-app>

using this bean:

package pkg; import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped; import javax.inject.Named; @Named @SessionScoped public class Hello { public Hello() { } public String hi(String name) { return "hi " + name; } }

Instead, the EL simply shows in the page as so:

thufir@dur:~$ thufir@dur:~$ lynx http://localhost:8080/HelloExpressionLanguage/client.xhtml -dump <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/facelets" xmlns:h="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/html"> <body> <ui:composition template="./template.xhtml"> <ui:define name="top"> top </ui:define> <ui:define name="content"> expression language not evaluating? <h:outputLabel value="#{hello.hi(fred)}" /> </ui:define> </ui:composition> </body> </html>thufir@dur:~$ thufir@dur:~$ thufir@dur:~$ lynx http://localhost:8080/HelloExpressionLanguage/ -dump top expression language not evaluating? thufir@dur:~$ thufir@dur:~$
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It is not clear that where do you want to see the expected "hello fred" output. In the example you use ui:insert, but it for templates.

if you want to use the hello method in the bean you will need to use an EL expression and for the output a h:outputLabel tag:

<h:outputLabel value="#{helloWorld.hello('fred')}" />

Update1 (if JSF code not processed):

You should check your web.xml. It have to contains a servlet and a listener like this:

<servlet> <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>

Note: of you use .xhtml or .hello or something else, you have to match the url-pattern of the server-mapping.

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why is ui:insert for templates? This example uses templates, certainly, so I don't understand what you're getting at. It's incorrect to use ui:insert?
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The desired output (to an extent), in that "bar" is output, from the Hello bean, below:

thufir@dur:~$ thufir@dur:~$ lynx http://localhost:8080/Birds/falcon.xhtml -dump The Happy Birds Directory Contents table __________________________________________________________________ [1]Home [2]Parrot [3]Eagle [4]Falcon Falcon The Happy Birds Directory contains birds. bean says bar References 1. http://localhost:8080/Birds/falcon.xhtml 2. http://localhost:8080/Birds/falcon.xhtml 3. http://localhost:8080/Birds/falcon.xhtml 4. http://localhost:8080/Birds/falcon.xhtml thufir@dur:~$

index.xhtml:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"> <body> This and everything before will be ignored <ui:composition template="template.xhtml"> <ui:define name="navigation"> <ui:include src="menu.xhtml"/> </ui:define> </ui:composition> This and everything after will be ignored </body> </html>

menu:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"> <body> This and everything before will be ignored <ui:composition> <h3>Contents table</h3> <hr/> <h:panelGrid columns="1"> <h:commandLink value="Home" action="home" /> <h:commandLink value="Parrot" action="parrot" /> <h:commandLink value="Eagle" action="eagle" /> <h:commandLink value="Falcon" action="falcon" /> </h:panelGrid> </ui:composition> This and everything after will be ignored </body> </html>

parrot:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"> <body> This and everything before will be ignored <ui:composition template="template.xhtml"> <ui:define name="navigation"> <ui:include src="menu.xhtml"/> </ui:define> <ui:define name="main"> <h1>Parrot</h1> <p> Parrots are interesting birds... </p> </ui:define> </ui:composition> This and everything after will be ignored </body> </html>

the falcon, speaks, to an extent:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"> <body> This and everything before will be ignored <ui:composition template="template.xhtml"> <ui:define name="navigation"> <ui:include src="menu.xhtml"/> </ui:define> <ui:define name="main"> <h1>Falcon</h1> <p> <p>The Happy Birds Directory contains #{directoryBean.totalCount} birds. bean says #{hello.foo()} </p> </p> </ui:define> </ui:composition> This and everything after will be ignored </body> </html>

however, output from the directoryBean doesn't get put into the web page.

the template:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"> <head> <title>The Happy Birds Directory</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- .box { float: right; width: 50%; border: black dotted 1px; padding: 5px } --> </style> </head> <body> <h:form> <h1>The Happy Birds Directory</h1> <div class="box"> <ui:insert name="navigation"/> </div> <ui:insert name="main"> Welcome to the nest! </ui:insert> </h:form> </body> </html>

directory bean:

package dur; import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped; import javax.inject.Named; @Named @SessionScoped public class DirectoryBean { private int totalCount = 99; public DirectoryBean() { } public int getTotalCount() { System.out.println(totalCount); return totalCount; } }

hello bean (note that it's @ManagedBean):

package dur; import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean; import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped; import javax.inject.Named; @Named @SessionScoped @ManagedBean(name = "hello") public class Hello { public Hello() { } public String foo() { return "bar"; } public String hi(String name) { return "hi " + name; } }

the web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app version="3.1" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"> <context-param> <param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name> <param-value>.xhtml</param-value> </context-param> <servlet> <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <session-config> <session-timeout> 30 </session-timeout> </session-config> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.xhtml</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> </web-app>
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