Me and two other guys at work are doing this as well. We started w/ a Converter per Class, but I've recently built one that dynamically looks up the identifer value from ORM meta data.
---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 23:19:00 -0400 >From: Mike Kienenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Which class to prepare database data to be displayed in JSF components >To: MyFaces Discussion <[email protected]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Really? because that's precisely how I'm using it -- populating >pulldowns. My object is my value and my key/label is whatever >object.getName() returns. > >On 9/2/05, Werner Punz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mike Kienenberger wrote: >> > I find custom converters registered by class to be ideal for this purpose. >> > It converts data between business object format and String (required >> > on the presentation side). >> > >> Not really totally feasable if you use a drop down box or another >> control which needs a key,value pair ;-) >> >> Dennis Byrne
