VRaptor comes with a default component capable of giving background information on VRaptor's configuration to the view component.
Just add the StatsQuery component to vraptor.xml:
<component>org.vraptor.util.StatsQuery</component>
There is a StatsQuery/read.ok.jsp example in the mydvds application that you can download.
Here is a simple example that helps most beginner programmers:
<div id="blue-box" style="width: 700px;">
This feature is here only for demonstration. You should turn it off while live.<br/>
<br/>
<table style="width: 100%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; border: solid 1pt; border-collapse: collapse;">
<tr>
<td>Name</td>
<td>Component class</td>
<td>Interceptors</td>
<td>Parameter</td>
<td>Logics</td>
</tr>
<c:forEach var="component" items="${components}">
<tr>
<td>${component.name}</td>
<td>${component.componentClass.simpleName}</td>
<td>
<c:forEach var="i" items="${component.interceptors}">
- ${i.interceptorClass.simpleName}<br/>
</c:forEach>
</td>
<td>
<c:forEach var="p" items="${component.readParameters}">
- ${p.key}<br/>
</c:forEach>
</td>
<td>
<c:forEach var="logic" items="${component.logics}">
- ${logic.name} : ${logic.metadata.name}<br/>
</c:forEach>
</td>
</tr>
</c:forEach>
</table>
<br/><br/>
<table style="width: 100%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt; border: solid 1pt; border-collapse: collapse;">
<tr>
<td>Url</td>
<td>Callback</td>
</tr>
<c:forEach var="component" items="${components}">
<c:forEach var="logic" items="${component.logics}">
<tr>
<td>${component.name}.${logic.name}.logic</td>
<td>${component.componentClass.name}.${logic.metadata.name}</td>
</tr>
</c:forEach>
</c:forEach>
</table>
</div>This feature should be disabled (do not register the component) in a live system: it can create a security lack if you leave your component registered as the end user might see what are the urls and read parameters.