Loading Resources with Weblets

Summary

As a new open source project, Weblets has tremendous potential to become a de facto standard that provides a generic and configurable resource-loading facility for web clients and the JSF component community. The key differentiators from the installables approach are the simplified packaging of JSF components and their resources and a minimal overhead of installing and setting up JSF component libraries for a particular web application project.

This chapter explored a new way of packaging resources with JSF components. You should now be able to leverage weblets in your own component library by including a suitable weblets-config.xml file and using the weblet:// protocol-style syntax to reference webletmanaged resources.

You should now understand how weblets integrate with JSF, understand the concepts used to package additional resources, and know how to set up and optimize an application to use these resources.