(Sorry I was not giving a complete description of the topic here. Apologize to the readers who has requested me to give a full article on this a while back). Naming Container will not sound unfamiliar if you are developing ADF. Naming Container is a mechanism in ADF to uniquely specify an Id of a component. It's nothing but a naming space attached to its underlying children components and make them unique in the ADF Faces component hierarchy so no components have duplicate Id. All the Naming Container Components in ADF should implement the NamingContainer Interface . Any children components under the naming container components will have to use its parent naming container id as their prefix in the fully qualified component id. If there are multiple naming container components nested, then multiple naming container prefix will be used. The prefix is separated by ":". A component that is located in a naming container thus always has an id value of container id>: .
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