We recommend you populate drop-downs on startup, especially if they're
going to be the same for all your users. We do this in StartupListener
- which should be in your project if you've run full-source. If it's
not, you should be able to copy this file into your project, change
the package name (in
Dear appfusers,
I got to wondering what would be considered a best practice for populating
JSF SelectItems, say for drop-down menus. I use it with a globalSession
scope.
Currently, I have a separate bean class that contains Maps of Label/Value
pairs. I prefer maps to Lists of SelectItem - seem