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- The Lifecycle of a JavaServer Faces Application
- Partial Processing and Partial Rendering
- The Lifecycle of a Facelets Application
- User Interface Component Model
This chapter is from the book
The Lifecycle of a Facelets Application
The JavaServer Faces specification defines the lifecycle of a JavaServer Faces application. For more information on this lifecycle, see “The Lifecycle of a JavaServer Faces Application” on page 50. The following steps describe that process as applied to a Facelets-based application.
- When a client, such as a browser, makes a new request to a page that is created using Facelets, a new component tree or javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot is created and placed in the FacesContext.
- The UIViewRoot is applied to the Facelets, and the view is populated with components for rendering.
- The newly built view is rendered back as a response to the client.
- On rendering, the state of this view is stored for the next request. The state of input components and form data is stored.
- The client may interact with the view and request another view or change from the JavaServer Faces application. At this time the saved view is restored from the stored state.
- The restored view is once again passed through the JavaServer Faces lifecycle, which eventually will either generate a new view or re-render the current view if there were no validation problems and no action was triggered.
- If the same view is requested, the stored view is rendered once again.
- If a new view is requested, then the process described in Step 2 is continued.
- The new view is then rendered back as a response to the client.