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Getting started with Java EE8 MVC(9)-View engine

View engine

Spring MVC provides View and ViewResolver to find view and render view. MVC provides ViewEngine to do the same job.

View Engine

By default, ozark support tow built-in view engines to render JSP and Facelets, respectively.
In the org.glassfish.ozark.ext (check org.glassfish.ozark.ext) package, ozark provides several ViewEngine implementations for the popular template.
  • Thymeleaf
  • Freemarker
  • Velocity
  • Handlebars
  • Mustache
  • Asciidoc
  • Stringtemplate
  • Jade
  • JSR223(Script engine)

Facelets

Originally, Facelets is part of JSF specification, now it can be worked as a standard template engine in MVC.
  1. Activate Facelets in web.xml.
    <servlet>
    <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
    We do not need face-config.xml file to activate JSF here.
  2. Convert all jsp files in the mvc sample to facelets template. Facelets supports Composite View pattern, we can define a template for all views.
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/facelets"
    xmlns:f="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/core"
    xmlns:h="http://xmlns.jcp.org/jsf/html"
    xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core">
    <f:view contentType="text/html" encoding="UTF-8">
        <ui:insert name="metadata"></ui:insert>
        <h:head>
            <meta charset="utf-8" />
            <title>Task List</title>
            <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
            <meta name="description" content="" />
            <meta name="author" content="" />

            <!-- styles -->
            <link href="#{request.contextPath}/webjars/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
            <link href="#{request.contextPath}/webjars/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
            <link href="#{request.contextPath}/webjars/bootstrap-material-design/0.3.0/css/material.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
            <link href="#{request.contextPath}/webjars/bootstrap-material-design/0.3.0/css/ripples.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
            <link href="#{request.contextPath}/webjars/bootstrap-material-design/0.3.0/css/roboto.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

            <link href="#{request.contextPath}/resources/css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" />
            <!-- HTML5 shim, for IE6-8 support of HTML5 elements -->
            <![CDATA[
            <!--[if lt IE 9]>
            <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/html5shiv/3.7.2/html5shiv.min.js"></script>
            <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/respond/1.4.2/respond.min.js"></script>
            <![endif]-->
            ]]>

            <ui:insert name="headIncludes"></ui:insert>
        </h:head>

        <h:body>
            <ui:include src="/WEB-INF/layout/header.xhtml" />
            <h:panelGroup layout="block" styleClass="container">
                <ui:include src="/WEB-INF/layout/alert.xhtml" />
                <h:panelGroup layout="block" styleClass="page-header">
                    <h1><ui:insert name="pageTitle"></ui:insert></h1>
                </h:panelGroup>
                <ui:insert name="content"/>
            </h:panelGroup>

            <ui:include src="/WEB-INF/layout/footer.xhtml"/>
            <!-- Placed at the end of the document so the pages load faster -->
            <script type="text/javascript" src="#{request.contextPath}/webjars/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js">
                /** stop autoclosing **/
            </script>
            <script type="text/javascript" src="#{request.contextPath}/webjars/bootstrap/3.3.5/js/bootstrap.min.js">

            </script>
            <script type="text/javascript" src="#{request.contextPath}/webjars/bootstrap-material-design/0.3.0/js/material.min.js">

            </script>
            <script type="text/javascript" src="#{request.contextPath}/webjars/bootstrap-material-design/0.3.0/js/ripples.min.js">

            </script>
            <script>
                $.material.init();
            </script>
        </h:body>
    </f:view>
</html>
    The template includes header and footer fragments directly, it also define a content placeholder, in the extended views the content will be inserted in the content definition.
    If you are familiar with JSF before, it is easy to understand the codes.
    Check out the codes and explore them yourself.
  3. Do not forget to change the view postfix to .xhtml in the TaskController. eg. the view in allTasks method.
    @GET
@View("tasks.xhtml")
public void allTasks() {
    log.log(Level.INFO, "fetching all tasks");

    List<Task> todotasks = taskRepository.findByStatus(Task.Status.TODO);
    List<Task> doingtasks = taskRepository.findByStatus(Task.Status.DOING);
    List<Task> donetasks = taskRepository.findByStatus(Task.Status.DONE);

    log.log(Level.INFO, "got all tasks: todotasks@{0}, doingtasks@{1}, donetasks@{2}", new Object[]{todotasks.size(), doingtasks.size(), donetasks.size()});

    models.put("todotasks", todotasks);
    models.put("doingtasks", doingtasks);
    models.put("donetasks", donetasks);

}

Source Codes

  1. Clone the codes from my github.com account.
    https://github.com/hantsy/ee8-sandbox/
  2. Open the mvc-facelets project in NetBeans IDE.
  3. Run it on Glassfish.
  4. After it is deployed and runging on Glassfish application server, navigate http://localhost:8080/ee8-mvc/mvc/tasks in browser.
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