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Package JSF Composite Component into JAR

When attempting to bundle our composite components into a jar and include as a dependency in another project, I followed the following answer.

This works for everything except the composite component implementation. The folder structure for our common project is shown below:

CommonWebProject
 |-- META-INF
 |    |-- resources
 |    |    `-- common
 |    |         |-- css
 |    |         |    ...
 |    |         |-- js
 |    |         |    ...
 |    |         |-- components
 |    |         |    `-- comment.xhtml
 |    |         |-- templates
 |    |         |    `-- defaultTemplate.xhtml
 |    |-- faces-config.xml
 |    `-- MANIFEST.MF
 :

comment.xhtml consists of:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
  xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui" xmlns:composite="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite">

<composite:interface>

</composite:interface>

<composite:implementation>
  <p>TESTING!</p>
</composite:implementation>

</html>

The actual implementation looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
  <ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
    xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" xmlns:csxc="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite/csxcomponent" xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui"
    xmlns:common="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite/common"
    template="/common/templates/defaultTemplate.xhtml">
    <ui:define name="head">
    </ui:define>

    <common:comment/>

  </ui:composition>

Here the template "defaultTemplate.xhtml" that is being pulled from the common jar is working correctly, but not the tag. Inspecting the page just shows the tag.

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Any ideas why?

Solution 
  • CommonWebProject
 |-- META-INF
 |    |-- resources
 |    |    `-- common
 |    |         |-- components
 |    |         |    `-- comment.xhtml
 :    :         :

    Thus, the resource-relative path is /common/components/comment.xhtml.

    However,

    xmlns:common="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite/common"
...
<common:comment />

    the XML namespace basically says that comment.xhtml is inside /common folder. It's actually not there. It's actually inside /common/components folder.

    Align out it.

    xmlns:common="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite/common/components"
...
<common:comment />

    I have in the meanwhile fixed the answer you found there.