Not sure if this is a bug but shouldn't a required field throw a validation error if nothing (empty string) is posted? My understanding was that JSF will skip conversion and consider the value missing. I'm seeing a conversion attempt (which I didn't expect) and then no validation error is thrown.
I know there are some subtleties with null vs. empty but I thought I understood things correctly. Is it possible that the tomahawk version is not behaving in the same way as the core version?
