I couldn’t figure out why when I tried to retro-fit an old JSF project for JSF2 annotations the annotations weren’t being processed and the managed beans weren’t being instantiated. Duh. The JSF2 annotation processor defers to faces-config.xml. My faces-config still said JSF 1.2 in the faces-config element and related xmlns ( more… )
The RichFaces manual show this example on using the “columns” tag: <rich:dataTable value=”#{capitalsBean.capitals}” var=”cap”> <rich:columns value=”#{capitalsBean.labels}” var=”col” index=”index”> <h:outputText value=”#{cap[index]}” /> </rich:columns> </rich:dataTable> There is no corresponding sample Java code. That’s very unfortunate, since in the absence of any better documentation, the natural thing to expect is that “capitalBeans.labels” would ( more… )
It’s not (so far as I know) officially required anywhere, but it’s a generally accepted principle that a form on a web page containing one text field and one submit button should submit itself when you type in text and press the ENTER key. A classic example of this is ( more… )
SF itself is fairly straightforward. Getting it functional in an appserver is another matter. Originally, I used MyFaces and Tomahawk. More recently, I’ve replaced MyFaces with the Sun JSF Reference Implementation (RI). Tomahawk, although a MyFaces library works just fine with the RI. The JSF-impl jar is part of the ( more… )
JSF and JPA have proven to be more problematic than expected. The upside of the JSF framework is that the datamodel objects can be presented more or less right up to the page view layer without recourse to Data Transer Objects (DTOs). The downside, is that what’s presented isn’t always ( more… )