Finding a jsf component in a FacesContext

Finding jsf components recursively by id

public UIComponent findComponentRecursivelyById(String id) {

 UIComponent result = null;
 UIComponent root = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getViewRoot();
 if (root != null) {
  result = findComponent(root, id);
 }

 return result;

}

private UIComponent findComponent(UIComponent root, String id) {

 UIComponent result = null;
 if (root.getId().equals(id))
  return root;

 for (UIComponent child : root.getChildren()) {
  if (child.getId().equals(id)) {
   result = child;
   break;
  }

  result = findComponent(child, id);

  if (result != null)
   break;
 }

 return result;
}