Chapter 4. Tomahawk

Tomahawk is the set of components that was originally developed together with the first version of MyFaces Core. Tomahawk was designed to extend the standard JSF components in two ways. First, all of the existing standard components were extended with some extra features; second, some extra components were added to expand the possibilities even further. This chapter focuses on how the Tomahawk components extend the JSF standard. We only cover the JSF 1.2 version of Tomahawk. And, of course, we will pay some extra attention to learn how to use the Tomahawk components in conjunction with Facelets.

After reading this chapter, you will be able to: