Building custom JSF UI Components

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astocks

Hi,

I'm trying to find some info on building custom JSF UI components. (In this case I require a slightly different simpleSearch component)

I have to change the repo.tld and faces-custom-repo.xml files, as well as the relevant classes. Is there any neat way of deploying this, like there is for navigation rules and managed beans? I am trying to make this as upgrade proof as possible and so would prefer not to have to edit the files directly.

Thanks for the help!

gavinc

The best way is to use new files where you can i.e. create a new TLD file for your component and use a faces-config-custom.xml file (you can override our empty implementation) or better still place faces-config.xml file in the META-INF folder of your won JAR file.

Have a look at this wiki page for some hints: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Packaging_And_Deploying_Extensions