Programmatically created html components in managed jsf beans

Question

I have the following code:

<div id="mws-navigation">
    <ul>
        <li><p:commandLink
                value="#{contentMB.msg.welcome_title.value}" actionListener="#{cleanUpMB.alChangeArea}"
                styleClass="mws-i-24 i-home" action="#{welcomeMB.aLoadDashboard}" global="false" /></li>
        <li><p:commandLink
                value="#{contentMB.msg.layout_menu_measures.value}"
                rendered="#{userSessionMB.measureEdit or userSessionMB.measureCreate}"
                styleClass="mws-i-24 i-table-1" global="false" />
            <ul>
                <li><p:commandLink
                        value="#{contentMB.msg.layout_menu_mm_findMeasures.value}"
                        rendered="#{userSessionMB.measureEdit}"
                        actionListener="#{cleanUpMB.alChangeArea}"
                        action="#{chooseMeasureControllerMB.aChoose}" /></li>
                <li><p:commandLink
                        value="#{contentMB.msg.layout_menu_mm_newMeasures.value}"
                        rendered="#{userSessionMB.measureCreate}"
                        actionListener="#{cleanUpMB.alChangeArea}"
                        action="#{newMeasureControllerMB.aNew}" /></li>
            </ul>
      </li>
   </ul>
</div>

which I want to create from a JSF managed bean. I know that there are java components for Primefaces that I can use and link them as a model, but how can I generate pure HTML tags:

<ul>
<div>
...

?

Answer 1

An easy way would be to return some HTML from a bean backup:

@Named
@RequestScoped
public class HtmlController implements Serializable {

private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    public String getSomeHtml(){
        return "<h1>Some HTML from a bean</h2>";
    }
}

And paste this into the JSF part:

<h:outputText value="#{htmlController.someHtml}" escape="false" />

But I think that for your case it would be better to create your own component, there you can also bind to beans support. One example of how to do this can be found here or take a look at the Java EE 6 tutorial .