Hi all, together with Gerald Müllan, I've put the finishing touchs on our partial validation / model update stuff.
there is an example under sandbox / subForm.jsp to try it out. Basically, I've done what Adam and Bernd have suggested, and created a new subForm component. Kudos to them for their input. Now what's possible with our approach? Basic functionality: if you include such a subForm component in your page, only buttons/links which are children of the subForm will cause the validation/model update for all child-components of this subForm to happen. So you can effectively disable validation/modelUpdate for any buttons out of this form. Extended functionality: if you use t:commandButton or t:commandLink, you now have an actionFor attribute. With this actionFor-attribue, you can link to a specific subform (just put the id of the referenced form in there), and cause the validation and update model of this subform to be triggered. you additionally have a actionForPhase attribute on the extended command components. With this actionForPhase attribute, you can select _which_ phase will be triggered. So now you can e.g. decide if only validation of a subForm shall happen, or only model update (aka: optional validation). Mike, Jesse, I'd love to hear how that could possibly interact or provide additional value to the optional validator framework... regards, Martin -- http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces
