Lifecycle overview

The picture below shows a lifecycle of a web component with all possible paths. The blue rectangles represent a browser and a web server. The orange ovals identify JSP files corresponding to the main composite page and to the component JSP file. A web component is included into composite page with <jsp:include> action.

The following sections explain the phases of component lifecycle:

• Component Load
• Processing the user input
• Reloading the component with redirect
• Reloading the component with forward
• Processing user input and rendering view in Ajax mode