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Using Facelets along with JSP in a JSF application

May 28, 2008 | 2 Minute Read
This post was originally posted on my old blog.

I wanted to use Facelets for some pages in an existing JSP/JSF application.
To achieve this I had to perform the following steps:

  • Download Facelets and copy the jsf-facelets.jar into your WEB-INF/lib directory
    If you use maven you can include the following dependency in your pom: 
            <dependency>
            <groupId>com.sun.facelets</groupId>
            <artifactId>jsf-facelets</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.14</version>
        </dependency>
  • Add the FaceletViewHandler to the faces-config.xml file.
    <application>
    ...
    <view-handler>
        com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler
    </view-handler>
</application>
  • Define which pages should be handled by Facelets, i.e. urls ending with '.xhtml'. Add the following snippet to your web.xml: 
        <context-param> 
            <param-name>facelets.VIEW_MAPPINGS</param-name> 
            <param-value>*.xhtml</param-value> 
    </context-param>
  • For a useful debug-screen, you should also add the following snippet to your web.xml: 
        <context-param>
        <param-name>facelets.DEVELOPMENT</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>
    </context-param>
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