Sunday 27 November 2011

JSP: arbitrary attributes on JSF controls

One criticism developers have of JavaServer Faces is that it is not possible to add arbitrary attributes to the resultant markup. Problems arise when they wish to add custom attributes specific to JavaScript frameworks (e.g. dojoType for the Dojo toolkit) or HTML 5 attributes (such as data- or placeholder.)

However, this is not a technical limitation of the JSF framework; only a limitation of the standard control library.