Exploiting the <ui:decorate> and <ui:fragment> tags
First, let's talk about the <ui:decorate> tag. As its name suggests, this tag is used for decorating pieces of a page. Unlike <ui:composition>, this tag doesn't ignore the content that is not enclosed in it, which may be an added advantage sometimes. Well, a simple example is shown in the following code (the template attribute is mandatory):
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:h="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/html" xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/facelets"> <h:head> <title></title> </h:head> <h:body> <h:outputText value="You ...
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