I have just started experimenting with JSPX and ICEfaces for a work project. I would like to know the best standards used to work with .JSPX and the best way to minimize code from pages.
I had worked with PHP, asp.NET, and Java before so you get an idea of my background.
I have some issues:
First of all, does JSPX use some kind of Master Page, if not I guess using "include" would be the best way to reduce repeated code. However I still cannot get rid of the whole header because I need the Title tag, unless this has a way around!?
The second issue is, that the html dumped by JSP is sometimes not valid. For example this is the html declaration: <html id="document:html" lang="en"> which is not valid, and there are other similar issues. I know there is another post about this on Stack Overflow, but that targets mainly self closing tags, doesn't mention the doctype issue.
I would appreciate if you can help me with my current issues, and if you have some good tutorials please share. What I would like is to create maintainable code and reduce code in pages as much as possible (for example include header and footer files, so you only have those in 1 file).
Update (BalusC Comment):
These are the first three lines I have in my .jspx file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jsp:root version="2.1" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" xmlns:ice="http://www.icesoft.com/icefaces/component">
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"/>