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Hey guys I have been trying different Javascript/AJAX jsf frameworks. I find most of them extremely heavy. Icefaces tends to add so much javascript just for simple things and it uses a notoriously slow javascript framework also. Primefaces is a little better since it uses jquery but I still find it kind of heavy. What if I just want to use straight vanilla jsf and add javascript on top of that.

What is the best way to go about this. I would need to be able to output javascript to the page from the backing bean. Would a servlet or restful service be good way to output javascript/html to a page?

I basically want to use basic jquery animations. Maybe do a datatable filter. Thanks for any help.

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What you want is definitely supported in JSF. You can use the <h:outputScript> tags for this and additionally the <h:outputStylesheet> tag if you also need CSS.

With these tags you can include scripts per view (page), although you can also opt to include them for all pages by creating a master Facelets template and include those there.

You can also create very simple components of your own by using JSF/Facelet's composite component feature. Those components just consist out of a simple .xhtml template file and those can include the javascript libraries you need and contain your own lightweight tailor-made javascript.

See this for some examples of using the <h:outputScript> tag in JSF: http://www.mkyong.com/jsf2/resources-library-in-jsf-2-0/

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