Code reuse with different backing beans?

[kal]

I am a JSF programmer, inheriting a project from someone else.

We have a lot of duplicated code in several places, where the only
difference is a different managed bean.

There are over 10 pages where you could cut and paste page A into page
B, and search and replace the bean (that is probably what someone did).

I am wondering what is the right way to handle this?

My coworker said she wanted me to write a custom tag that would serve
the purpose of the duplicated code, we would just give a different
bean.

I thought that was overkill.

I was just wondering what is the "correct" way to handle this issue?

Thanks

Kal

 

[Robert Mark Bram]

Hi Kal,

There are over 10 pages where you could cut and paste page A into page
B, and search and replace the bean (that is probably what someone did).

I am wondering what is the right way to handle this?

Perhaps a JSPF (JSP fragment) file could be used to hold the 'common
jsp'?

Rob

 

[Daniel Pitts]

Hi Kal,


Perhaps a JSPF (JSP fragment) file could be used to hold the 'common
jsp'?

Keep in mind, he's using Java Server Faces, which isn't exactly the
same as JSP, AFAIK.

Rob

Although, I think JSF does use something similar to EL, so you could
PROBABLY use the same JSF fragment with different backing beans. I'm
not sure how to do this, but I should expect it is possible. I know it
is possible in JSP's.