3. add taglib: Example App using Seam 3, RichFaces 4 on eclipse

Building example application seam 3 + richfaces 4 series
3. Add custom taglib


If you are already using custome taglib on jsf1.2 with facelet, there is nothing changed. You can reuse existing taglib as it is.

1. To setup seam 3 + richfaces 4 check

Building example application seam 3 + richfaces 4 series
3. Add custom taglib


2. add following configuration on web.xml

 <context-param>
 <param-name>facelets.LIBRARIES</param-name>
 <param-value>/taglib_test/taglib_test.taglib.xml</param-value>
 </context-param>

3. create custom tag

3.1 create taglib_test directory on WebContent
3.2 create taglib_test.taglib.xml file in WebContent/taglib_test directory

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE facelet-taglib PUBLIC
  "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Facelet Taglib 1.0//EN"
  "http://java.sun.com/dtd/facelet-taglib_1_0.dtd">
<facelet-taglib>
    <namespace>http://test.com/tl_test</namespace>
    <tag>
  <tag-name>test_panel</tag-name>
  <source>taglib_test.xhtml</source>
    </tag>
</facelet-taglib>

3.3 create taglib_test.xhtml file in WebContent/taglib_test directory

<ui:composition  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
   xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
   xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich">
 <rich:panel header="Tag lib testing">
  This is testing for custom taglib. This is remained same as before in JSF 1.2. 
 </rich:panel>
</ui:composition>

4. create index_with_taglib.xhtml in WebContent directory

<!DOCTYPE composition PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
                xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
     xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
     xmlns:tt="http://test.com/tl_test"
                template="template.xhtml">

    <ui:define name="content">
     <h1>Seam 3 taglib test</h1>
 
  <tt:test_panel />
      
 </ui:define>
</ui:composition>

5. deploy it onto Jboss 6

6. http://localhost:8080/seam3-test/index_with_taglib.xhtml