Java Reference
In-Depth Information
The following are the valid values for the
javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE
context
parameter for the faces servlet:
• Development
• Production
• SystemTest
• UnitTest
As we previously mentioned, the
Development
project stage adds additional
debugging information to ease development. The
Production
project stage focuses
on performance. The other two valid values for the project stage (
SystemTest
and
UnitTest
), allow us to implement our own custom behavior for these two phases.
The
javax.faces.application.Application
class has a
getProjectStage()
method that allows us to obtain the current project stage. Based on the value of this
method, we can implement the code that will only be executed in the appropriate
stage. The following code snippet illustrates this:
public void someMethod() {
FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
Application application = facesContext.getApplication();
ProjectStage projectStage = application.getProjectStage();
if (projectStage.equals(ProjectStage.Development)) {
//do development stuff
} else if (projectStage.equals(ProjectStage.Production)) {
//do production stuff
} else if (projectStage.equals(ProjectStage.SystemTest)) {
// do system test stuff
} else if (projectStage.equals(ProjectStage.UnitTest)) {
//do unit test stuff
}
}
As illustrated in the snippet above, we can implement the code to be executed in any
valid project stage, based on the return value of the
getProjectStage()
method of
the
Application
class.
When creating a Java Web project using JSF, a facelet is automatically generated.
The generated facelet file looks like this:
<?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"
