Building UI

🗃️ Archetypes

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Understand the webforJ component hierarchy, composition over inheritance, lifecycle stages, and concern interfaces before building custom components.

Configure webforJ components in Java by setting text, attributes, IDs, inline styles, and CSS classes that drive appearance and behavior.

Combine webforJ components into reusable units by extending Composite, configuring the bound component, and overriding initBoundComponent.

Integrate raw HTML tags and custom web components in webforJ using the Element class to add children, set content, and invoke JavaScript.

Wrap third-party web components in Java with ElementComposite using PropertyDescriptor, attribute mapping, and typed event listeners.

Configure element events with ElementEventOptions to attach payload data, filter, debounce, throttle, and run client-side code before firing.

Attach event listeners to webforJ components with lambdas, anonymous classes, or method references and reuse the event payload server-side.