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# View engine
Spring MVC provides `View` and `ViewResolver` to find view and render view. MVC provides `ViewEngine` to do the same job.
## View Engine
By default, **ozark** support tow built-in view engines to render **JSP** and **Facelets**, respectively.
In the `org.glassfish.ozark.ext` (check [org.glassfish.ozark.ext](http://mvnrepository.com/search?q=org.glassfish.ozark.ext)) package, **ozark** provides several `ViewEngine` implementations for the popular template.
* Thymeleaf
* Freemarker
* Velocity
* Handlebars
* Mustache
* Asciidoc
* Stringtemplate
* Jade
* JSR223(Script engine)
## Facelets
Originally, **Facelets** is part of JSF specification, now it can be worked as a standard template engine in MVC.
1. Activate **Facelets** in web.xml.
```markup
Faces Servletjavax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet1Faces Servlet*.xhtml
```
We do not need **face-config.xml** file to activate JSF here.
2. Convert all jsp files in the **mvc** sample to facelets template. Facelets supports **Composite View** pattern, we can define a template for all views.
```markup
Task List
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```
The template includes **header** and **footer** fragments directly, it also define a **content** placeholder, in the extended views the content will be inserted in the **content** definition.
If you are familiar with JSF before, it is easy to understand the codes.
Check out the codes and explore them yourself.
3. Do not forget to change the view postfix to **.xhtml** in the `TaskController`. eg. the view in `allTasks` method.
```java
@GET
@View("tasks.xhtml")
public void allTasks() {
log.log(Level.INFO, "fetching all tasks");
List todotasks = taskRepository.findByStatus(Task.Status.TODO);
List doingtasks = taskRepository.findByStatus(Task.Status.DOING);
List donetasks = taskRepository.findByStatus(Task.Status.DONE);
log.log(Level.INFO, "got all tasks: todotasks@{0}, doingtasks@{1}, donetasks@{2}", new Object[]{todotasks.size(), doingtasks.size(), donetasks.size()});
models.put("todotasks", todotasks);
models.put("doingtasks", doingtasks);
models.put("donetasks", donetasks);
}
```
## Source Codes
1. Clone the codes from my GitHub account.
2. Open the **mvc-facelets** project in NetBeans IDE.
3. Run it on Glassfish.
4. After it is deployed and running on Glassfish application server, navigate in browser.