What advantages do JSF's h:outputScript/ h:outputStylesheet have over plain HTML script/style elements

Question

Is it preferable to use JSF's h:outputScript or h:outputStylesheet when script/style elements may just work for you ? What advantages does former offer over the latter ?

Answer 1

The JSF builtin resource handling has at least the following advantages:

• Resource versioning
• Configurable cache control
• Packaging in JAR
• Programmatic (component based) manipulation
• Automatic prepending of right context path
• EL support in CSS files
• i18n support (different resource files based on user's locale)
• Automatic HTTP/2 push (JSF 2.3+ on HTTPS only)

See also:

• How to reference CSS / JS / image resource in Facelets template?
• What is the JSF resource library for and how should it be used?