Rob Williams describes some of the pain I've experienced in the past with JSF. You have complicated Domain dynamic hierarchies. You don't want to be trying to create a dynamic hierarchy of Data Transfer Objects that you then have to maintain, populate and transfer. So what do you do?
Ryan chimed in that if we don't come up with a solution for JSF 2.0, we'll be living with the current situation for the next 3-4 years... Fundamental Failing of JSF, Some Ideas for Overcoming http://www.jroller.com/robwilliams/entry/fundamental_failing_of_jsf_some Who's got some ideas? My only idea up to this point has been to generate the DTOs with similar templates I use for generating my ORM (Cayenne or JPA) objects, then manually doing the transfer. Or, in other cases, cripple the app usability and simplify the input pages. Example: Customer can have multiple addresses, emails, phone numbers, lists of accounts, etc.
