Recognize Links In H:outputtext

I need to show some text using tag component. There is this requirement that if the text contains an URLs i.e. http//example.com.co, I need show it as a link.

Solution 1:

You need a function which does a regular expression replace on your string. You can use string.replaceAll() for this.

You have multiple options to place this function.

1. You can create a method in your backing bean.
2. You can create a custom jsf tag (example)
3. You can create a custom el function (example)

No 1 is the easiest to implement imho.